Entries from 2016-10-01 to 1 month

The 58th Kyoto Kanze Noh(第五十八回京都観世能)

On October the 23rd 2016, I watched The 58th Kyoto Kanze Noh, a medieval style traditional play of Japan, known as “noh-gaku”(能楽). It consists of tragedic “noh”(能) and comical “kyogen”(狂言). For detail, please see the link (sorry…

Ramanujan

On October the 22nd 2016, I watched a movie called “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, which memorizes an Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). It describes what would happen if people from different cultures meet each other. Ther…