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…