宮崎駿監督のアニメ映画『君たちはどう生きるか』には，Denis Villeneuve監督の映画 “Arrival” （邦題：メッセージ）に出てくる宇宙船そっくりの物体が終盤に出てくる． “Arrival” はTed Chiangの小説 “Story of Your Life” （邦題：あなたの人生の物語） を…

宮崎駿監督の映画『風立ちぬ』について，階級差や性差，地域差などに注目した短い評論を書いてみました． ＊＊＊ 宮崎駿監督の映画『風立ちぬ』の登場人物にはエリート・庶民などという階級差，男性・女性という性差，欧米先進国・日本という地域差がある．…

I watched Ryusuke Hamagchi’s movie, “Drive My Car”. It recalls the strength of movies in traditional but vivid ways. There are three points for this claim. (1) The mixture of stories in text into real based on a lot of coincidences. (2) Mu…

I noticed that in the beginning of 2022, Daisuke Nishijima’s manga series “The Witch and the End of the World” was completed. I purchased Book 1 in 2005 and was fascinated by the book. Book 2 appeared in 2006, and later I purchased togethe…

Many principal investigators (PIs) quite often believe strongly in the matters that are not fact at all. They turn out to listen to no one in such cases. I’ve never been a PI and still do not know how this could happen. In the 78th episode…

『君たちはどう生きるか』のアオサギを見て，そう言えば前にアオサギについて触れた文章を書いたかなと思い，SSD内を検索して出て来た文章が2つあった．記憶の彼方にあった． ＊＊＊ 仁徳天皇 ＊＊＊ 古事記下巻の最初の方には大雀命（大鷦鷯尊、仁徳天皇）…

小さい頃，お寺や神社の石段の段一つ一つが大きいので，そこを足を大きく上げながらうんとこしょ，どっこいしょと上っていた．そういう記憶を呼び起こしてくれるのが，『君たちはどう生きるか』で主人公の眞人がこれから住む邸宅の入り口に続く石段を上がっ…

I have watched a new animation movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, “The Boy and the Heron”. This is a story of matters that are not explicitly stated. With simple abstraction, the story would be jacked up into a short fairy tale suitable for…

In the 26th episode of the Japanese drama series “What Will You Do, Ieyasu?”, the character of Ieyasu Tokugawa suddenly became decent after the death of his wife, Sena. For dramatical reason in this drama it was unavoidable. In reality, Ie…

Armenian people were influenced mostly by Iranian people until CE3C. However, the tyranny by the Sassanian changed their mind and they acted independently from the rulers. In CE16C, the Safaviyān rose and the conflicts between the Safaviyā…

In the transition from the ancient world to the medieval world, three topics were important for maintaining the identity of Armenian people. Christianity, Armenian alphabets and the autonomy. The Sassanian and Byzantine empires divided the…

黒澤明映画『羅生門』は芥川龍之介小説『藪の中』が原作である．この作品のキーは「視点」である．それはカメラワークに最初から現れ，山の中を歩く杣売りが前方の茂みを掻き分けて行く時の視点，下から木の梢を見上げる視点，山の傾斜の上から下を眺める視…

I am now reading George A. Bournoutian “A Concise History of the Armenian People: From Ancient Times to the Present”（邦訳：アルメニア人の歴史，藤原書店）. If you know a bit about an elementary world history, this book can be read with dee…

This half period of Japanese year, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts a television drama called "Ranman". It is a half-fictional drama based on the life of a famous Japanese botanist Tomitaro Makino. He was a father of modern pl…

“Epic of Gilgameš” is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Gilgameš (in akkadū), or Bilgameš (in eme-ĝir15), was the fifth king of Uruk/Unug I around BC2600. He was originally from Sumer but his legend is abundantly preserved in akkadū c…