Vol.28
Forest of Thought
Reading with the Body, Writing with the Body｜Fumiko Hayashi, Who Never Stopped Writing
Becoming a bookworm and reading thousands of books does not by itself make living knowledge. There was a time when writers travelled more than their readers. All her life, Fumiko Hayashi read with her body, wrote with her body, and simply kept writing. No work was written more with the body than Horoki.
Kunitsukami Project
The Uemachi Plateau and Kusaka｜The Places of Good Ki Were Taken First by Those Who Came Before
The place where Osaka Castle was built lies at the northern tip of the Uemachi Plateau, with Osaka Bay to the west and the Bay of Kawachi to the east. "A peninsula surrounded by a world of water" is the true nature of the Uemachi Plateau. Long before Toyotomi Hideyoshi built his castle, the site was a strategic point that decided whom to let through. Facing east from Morinomiya around the spring equinox, one sees the sun rise right about at Kusaka on Mount Ikoma.
KINEMA 2400
Mikio Naruse's A Wanderer's Notebook｜"Horoki Is Not All of Me"
Mikio Naruse's film of Fumiko Hayashi's Horoki. Hideko Takamine's Hayashi keeps writing and keeps publishing, however many times she is turned down. From the celebration of the book's success Naruse cuts straight to her final years, undoing the deified image of the writer and bringing the living Fumiko Hayashi to her feet.