Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
“Never forget your beginner’s mind,” was the phrase that Zeami (世阿弥, c1363~c1443), who perfected Noh (能), preached as the secret of the (performing) arts. The phrase appears in Kakyo (花鏡, 1402), the first volume of Fushikaden (風姿花伝, 1424), a treatise…
Sakoku (locked or closed country) refers to the isolationist policy implemented during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shogunate shogun, Iemitsu (1604~1651), in the Edo period (1603~1868), which restricted Japanese travel abroad and the arrival of foreign ships with the…
Awareness of the background to the artificially created virus turmoil of 2019 and the possibility of a new artificial virus genocide being carried out as early as the fall of 2024 has at least awakened commoners to the need to…
Seppuku (Harakiri) is the act of cutting one’s own stomach with a short sword in order to die with dignity and honor, and was used by samurai (bushi) as a method of suicide or execution, and many people may have…