Entries from 2017-01-01 to 1 year
On December the 10th 2017, I watched a movie called “Thunderbolt Fantasy 生死一劍”. It is a supplementary stories of Japanese-Taiwanese glove puppetry series created and written by Gen Urobuchi（虚淵玄）, who is famous for an animation ser…
On December the 1st 2017, I watched a movie called “Kubo and the Two Strings”. It is a 3D stop-motion animated movie and if you like such a type of movies, for example “The Nightmare Before Christmas” or Jan Švankmajer’s films, you can enj…
On November the 21st 2017, I climbed Mt. Kibuneyama（貴船山）. The weather was rainy on the mountain and I did not take so many photos. I started climbing from Moritani Jinja Shrine/Fuji Jinja Shrine（守谷神社/富士神社）of Ninose（二ノ瀬）…
On November the 20th 2017, I watched a crazy animation movie called “Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters（GODZILLA –怪獣惑星）”. The screenplay was written by Gen Urobuchi（虚淵玄）, a famous writer known in Puella Magi Madoka Magica（魔法少…
On November the 5th 2017, I climbed Mt. Hangokutakayama（半国高山）. It is famous for an area of producing Kitayama Sugi (a Japanese cedar in the northern part of Kyoto City). I started climbing from Kumogahata（雲ヶ畑）, going westward. C…
On October the 30th 2017, I watched a movie called “Blade Runner 2049” directed by Denis Villeneuve. It is a continuation of a very famous SF movie “Blade Runner”, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel and directed by Ridley Scott. Compared with…
On October the 20th 2017, I watched an animation movie called “Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel –I. Presage Flower”. It is a fantasy story about harsh competition to obtain the ‘fake’ holy grail, which grants any desire of someone who finall…
On September the 25th 2017, I watched a movie called “DUNKIRK”, directed by Christopher Nolan. It is an entanglement of three stories in land, sea and air, describing one scenery of the withdrawal in the Battle of Dunkirk of WW II. The dra…
On July the 23rd, I watched an animation movie called “SAMPO SHOJO（算法少女）” which is based on a real girl who lived in Edo period and authored her book of Japanese mathematics, whose name is “Sampo Shojo (= arithmetic girl)”. The ficti…
On June the 14th 2017, I watched a movie called “A Monster Calls”. This is a dark fantasy drama of a boy, who is good at art but has developed a distorted character during his raise. He meets a huge “monster” of European Yew tree and the s…
On May the 28th 2017, I climbed Mt. Amagadake（天ヶ岳）. It is one of ten best mountains in Ohara（大原）district. The nose of this ornament of long-nose goblin at Kurama（鞍馬）was broken when there was a lot of snow. People fixed it, how…
I have read a mathematical-philosophical book by Prof. Fumiharu Kato in Tokyo Institute of Technology（東京工業大学の加藤文元教授）, called “Bernhard Riemann’s Mathematics and Thoughts（リーマンの数学と思想）” (Kyoritsu Shuppan/共立出版). …
On May the 20th 2017, I watched a movie called “Arrival”. It is a science fiction & mystery movie originated by a short novel by Ted Chiang. The main character is a woman linguist, who happened to encounter with extraterrestrial intelligen…
On May the 14th 2017, I climbed a mountain called Mt. Taikonjiyama（胎金寺山）. It locates in Tanba district. Taikonji was the name of temple that had been existed in the old ages. Now the place is occupied by Make-Jinja Shrine（摩氣神社）…
I have read a manga of medieval Asian fantastic roman, about recently decoded Tangut characters（西夏文字）. The name of the manga is “Shut Hell（シュトヘル）”. The main story is about the battle of a woman of Western Xia（西夏）called “Sh…
On April the 30th 2017, I climbed Mt. Kasagiyama（笠置山）. It was the stage of Genko War（元弘の乱）in 1331. In this war, Emperor Go-Daigo（後醍醐天皇）attempted to beat Kamakura Shogunate and he barricaded himself to this mountain. Howev…
On April the 20th 2017, I watched a movie called “T2 Trainspotting”. It is the sequel to the successful movie in 1996, “Trainspotting”. Although more than 20 years have passed, the black humor underlay in the story has never faded away. Th…
On April the 16th 2017, I climbed Mt. Sanjosan（三上山）. It is located in Kidzugawa city（木津川市）. Wakidenomiya Shrine（湧出宮）worships Amenohukimenomikoto（天乃夫岐売命）, Tagorihimenomikoto（田凝姫命）, Ichikishimahimenomikoto（市杵…
On April the 10th 2017, I watched a movie called “GHOST IN THE SHELL”. This movie is originally a Japanese manga series by Masamune Shiro（士郎正宗）, expanded to animation movies/TV series by Mamoru Oshii/Kenji Kamiyama/Kazuchika Kise（押…
On April the 2nd 2017, I climbed Mt. Jubusan（鷲峰山）in Uji-Tawara（宇治田原）region. Uji-Tawara is known as the origin of Japanese green tea and Mt. Jubusan is the highest among the mountains in Southern Yamashiro, including Uji-Tawara. …
On March the 27th 2017, I watched an animation movie called “Ancien and the Magic Tablet（ひるね姫 〜知らないワタシの物語〜）”. The movie is based on two stories in parallel, one is in real and the other is in dream. These two stories beco…
On March the 12th 2017, I climbed Mt. Jizoyama（地蔵山） in the northwest of Kyoto City. It has a triangulation point that is in the highest altitude in Kyoto Prefecture. This is Ashimi Toge Mountain Pass（芦見峠）, a serene place. Red-Bel…
On March the 1st 2017, I visited Jinkoin temple（神光院）, Omiya Traffic Park（大宮交通公園）and Daitokuji temple（大徳寺）to find lichens, as they are close to my current living place. I could notice comparably more species of lichens, if…
On February the 4th 2017, I watched movies called “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and “Genocidal Organ（虐殺器官）”. I happened to watch these two movies together due to my schedule, however, the main theme of them turned out…
On January the 29th 2017, I watched an Austrian-Luxembourgian movie called Egon Schiele: Tod und Madchen. It is a story for a famous artist in the beginning of the 20th century, Egon Schiele himself, baring the secret of “Tod und Madchen”.…
On January the 28th 2017, I climbed Mt. Kannabiyama（甘南備山）in southern part of Kyoto Prefecture, Yamashiro to avoid snow. It is famous for the appearance in the collection of ancient Japanese folk tales, Konjaku-Monogatarishu（今昔物語…
On January the 22nd 2017, I watched a new Martin Scorsese picture “Silence（沈黙）” based on the novel of a Japanese writer Shusaku Endo（遠藤周作）. It was a fiction story of a Portuguese priest who visited Japan in the beginning of Edo p…
I watched a Japanese movie called “Pale Moon（紙の月）”. It is a story about a solitary woman banker who embezzled transactions among customers and the bank. The woman has calm character and at first, she appeared not to be enthusiastic. H…
On January the 8th 2017, I watched Kyoto Kanzekai Regular Meeting (January) of Nohgaku in Kyoto Kanzekaikan. The repertoires were Noh Okina（翁）, Noh Oimatsu（老松）, Kyogen Sanbon no Hashira（三本柱）, Shimai Tohoku（東北）, Noh Yuya（熊…
Happy new year 2017 and we wish everyone to enjoy a great year. As a new year’s visit to a temple, we visited Taishokannonji temple, also known as “Abiko Kannon Ji temple”（大聖観音寺、吾彦観音寺）, where I have already visited. This templ…
