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The quality of digital game character AI is also determined by the basic technology of digital game AI: “The quality of a digital game character AI is determined by “how well the AI can operate with control over time and space. This also means how aware it is of its surroundings and how well it can construct its actions within a range of time and time scales.” As stated, enriching the context of the time axis (history) and the space axis (travel) is essential for enjoying a rich game (life).
Here, we will discuss various travel and history topics based on travelogues such as Ryotaro Shiba’s Kaido yuku,
Hiroyuki Itsuki’s Hyakuji Pilgrimage, and books on history such as World History of Rise and Fall and Ancient Messages. and also describes the sports and arts that take place in various regions.
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Rinzai Zen, one of the pioneers of Zen in Japan, and the temples in Kamakura where many of these temples still remain (the Kamakura Gozan) will be introduced. First, the historical flow of Eisai’s Rinzai Zen and the five temples of Kamakura (Kenchoji Temple, Engakuji Temple, Jufukuji Temple, Jochiji Temple, and Jomyoji Temple) will be described, as well as the characteristics of each temple from the perspective of tourism.
The Ironman race in Hawaii takes place on the Big Island of Hawaii. The start/finish line is in the rural seaside town of Kailua-Kona, just a few kilometers from the small Kona airport, the gateway to the air route. After a 3.8 km swim in the beautiful ocean, where sea turtles also swim, and a change of wetsuit into a bike jersey, the cyclist climbs a steep hill for the first little over 1 km to the highway and At the top of the hill, the cyclists turn left onto the highway, which is an endless stretch of blasted lava road, and ride 180 km back to Kailua-Kona, then put on their running shoes and run 42.195 km along the ups and downs along the coast in a race full of nature.
As mentioned in BORN TO RUN, one of the oldest and most famous races in Japan is the “Fuji Ascent Race. Fuji, which takes place every July in Fujiyoshida City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The first race was held in 1948 (Showa 23) and has a history of 73 times.The course begins in front of the Fujiyoshida City Hall at an elevation of 770 m, and after running on level ground for a while, the runners will pass through the Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine and the trailhead (Yoshida-guchi trail) to Kusushi Shrine at the summit of Mt. The course must be run at a very fast pace, and the completion rate is less than 50%, making this a very difficult race. The course map is shown below.
Kazuaki Teratani, a 41-year-old divorcee, lives in Innoshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, with his two elementary school-age sons while working as a truck driver.
One night, he is involved in a traffic accident, and a mysterious angel appears in front of him and gives him a “magic ball that flies at will.
Kazusho goes to take the Hiroshima Carp’s entrance test to fulfill his childhood dream of making the Carp the number one team in Japan.
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Kaido yuku” (On the Road) began in 1971 as a serialization in “Asahi Weekly” and continued for 25 years until Ryotaro Shiba’s death in 1996, making it a total of 43 volumes. From the first volume, I would like to describe the Kosai-no-michi. The Kosai-no-michi starts from the east side of Kyoto (the area around Nanzenji Temple, which is a separate temple from the five mountains of Kyoto, as opposed to the five mountains of Kamakura, as previously mentioned) and heads toward the Otsu area.
The stage for this trip is Nara Prefecture, the site of the ancient Yamato Imperial Court. The stage of this journey is the mountainous basin (Nara Basin), which is the only flat area (upper left in the above figure) in Nara Prefecture, which has many mountainous areas, and the highway (Takeuchi Kaido) that passes through the basin.
It is written in an ancient book (Nihon shoki) that the ancient Yamato court family came from Takamenohara (Takachiho), located on the outskirts of Kyushu/Miyazaki, up the Japanese archipelago to Nara. (Emperor Sutoku is mentioned as a person who came to Nara at the dawn of the Yamato Imperial Court.) You can learn more about the story of ancient Japan by reading the Nihonshoki and its commentaries, or, although the author’s imagination may be involved, by reading the “Ancient Messages” series or the “New Historiography” series, etc.
This time, the stage shifts to the Kanto region and we head for Hachioji along the Koshu-kaido highway. Historical episodes in this area include the vastness of Musashino, as recited by Ota Dokan, the Bando people in the Sarashina Nikki, Nahaichi, the companion of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu, the Hachioji Sen-nin Doshin and Isamu Kondo, and finally Tokugawa Yoshinobu, as mentioned.
In this issue, we will discuss the Katsuragi Michi. The Katsuragi region is located in the southeast of the Nara Basin. While proceeding from Fuefuki-jinja Shrine, which enshrines Fuefuki-ren, the ancestor of the ancient Japanese clan Fuefukibu, to Ichiban-jinja Shrine, which enshrines the ancestor of the Katsuragi clan, the relationship between the ancient clans of Katsuragi and Japanese royal authority is described, including Ichiban-ren, Emperor Yusei and Yaku-gyoja (En no Kozuna), who is considered a member of the Kamo clan. The journey ends at Takagamo Shrine, which enshrines the ancestor of the Kamo clan.
Choshu-ji is the present-day cities of Hagi and Yamaguchi in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and is also the stage from which many of the Bakumatsu no Shishi (patriots at the end of the Edo period) who appear in Ryotaro Shiba’s novels emerged. After describing the temperament of the Choshu people, who were the driving force behind the Meiji Restoration, with their combination of sagacity and inquisitiveness, the trip started at the Amidadera and Dannoura towns in Shimonoseki on the Kanmon Straits, and went back in time to the Ouchi and Mori periods of the Warring States period, before proceeding to Yudaonsen, Yamaguchi City, and Tsuwano, where Tsuwano began to smile at the forest. It concludes with stories about Ogai, Saishu, and others.
This trip will be to Oshu (Tohoku region). Starting from Hachinohe, we will talk about the story of the Nanbu clan that ruled Hachinohe, the ruins of Nejo Castle built by the Nanbu clan and Kushibiki Hachimangu Shrine, also built by the Nanbu clan, and the Kuji Highway that goes to Kuji via Hokaue and Karume, where we will see monuments to Takayama Hikokuro XX and Mifune Kyuzo, a famous judo player, then head north along the Hama Highway on the Rikuchu Coast to Itabashi, Samurahama, Koshinai and Taneichi, and then to Tanezaki Beach. Further north via Shiraishi, Towada, and the Rikuha Highway, we will pass through Nobechi and see the Shimokita Peninsula. From there, the journey ends at a place called Yotsumori, a mound marking the boundary between the Nanbu and Tsugaru clans.
This trip will take us to the southern part of Kyushu (Kumamoto and Kagoshima). It starts from Kumamoto Airport, visits Tahara-zaka, a famous old battlefield of the Seinan War in Ueki-cho, the northern neighbor of Kumamoto City, describes the historical rivalry between Higo and Satsuma, and then describes Takamori Saigo, the main character of the Seinan War. From Tahara-zaka, he moves to Yatsushiro to see the ruins of Yatsushiro Castle, and then travels upstream along the Kushimaro River to Hitoyoshi at the foot of Aso, where he describes the Sagara clan that settled the area.
This time, we will travel to Osaka/Kawachi area, which is the hometown of Ryotaro Shiba, who lived in Higashiosaka City. The Kawachi region is said to be the site of the ancient Japanese Yamato dynasty, which created huge burial mounds such as the Ojin and Nintoku Imperial Tombs, as the Miwa dynasty returned to the Kawachi dynasty over the Ikoma Mountains after its decline in the Yamato Basin (Takenouchi Highway and Katsuragi Road mentioned in the previous article).
This time, we will travel along the RAKUHOKU MICHAIDO (RAKUHOKU MICHAIDO), a series of roads in the mountainous area in the north of Kyoto. First, let’s start with stasta-boshi. Stastha-boji are monks who are literally walking with several people, also known as “ganjin-boji. The story of the stasta-boji is followed by the story of the mountain priests. The story then moves on from Kuramadera Temple to the monks and soldiers of the temple, and finally to the story of the Northern and Southern Dynasties at Yamakoku-ryo.
This time, the southern and western parts of Shikoku. In terms of prefectures, they are Ehime and Kochi. In Ryotaro Shiba’s novels, “Clouds over the Hill” is set against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War and features the Akiyama brothers from Matsuyama, while “Hanakami” is set at the end of the Edo period and features Masujiro Omura, who was born in Choshu but became very famous in Uwajima, as mentioned earlier.
The tour starts from Matsuyama. As mentioned in “Clouds over the Hill,” Matsuyama is a place where haiku poetry flourishes, and many haiku poets such as Shiki Masaoka, Kyoshi Takahama, Hekigoto Kawahigashi, and Santoka have written haiku. In the book “Masaoka Shiki” written by Kyoshi Takahama, there is a scene in which Kyoshi in junior high school meets Shiki for the first time at a military drill ground under Matsuyama Castle, who was then attending a university prep school in Tokyo.
This trip will be to the North Sea, etc. It starts from Hakodate and Matsumae town (lower left star on the map) and finally extends over a fairly wide area to Rikubetsu town (upper right star on the map). The difference from the previous “Kaido no Yuku” is that the first half of the book, up to Hakodate and Matsumae, is a historical story, but the second half is purely a travelogue (the history of Hokkaido is shallower than that of Nara, Kyoto, and the other Hanshin regions).
This time, we will travel south from Osaka to Kansai International Airport. In Sakai, we will recall the free cities of the Warring States Period, and then head to Nanshu Zenji Temple, which was founded by the monk Sawan. Then we will eat udon sukiyaki at Miu Miu, which has its main restaurant in Sakai.
In this article, we will discuss the Echchu-michi, the road from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan near the center of Japan, passing through Gifu Prefecture to the famous World Heritage Site of Shirakawa-go, the Gujo/Shirakawa Highway, and on to Toyama Prefecture. (Gifu Hatori Station, Egoma oil, Rape flower oil, Dosan Saito, Nobunaga Oda, Shinran, Jodo Shinshu, Ikko Putsch, Gujo Hachiman Castle, Nagara River, Kinkasan, Castle in the Sky, candy balls with meat cakes, Shirakawa Valley, Lake Omogi, Shirakawa-go, World Heritage, Japan Alps, Toyama)
This trip is a route from Kyoto to Osaka and Hyogo, starting from Nagaoka-kyo, which was temporarily built when Nara was moved to Kyoto, and Oharano Shrine (star on the far right in the figure), which was established there by the Fujiwara clan. The road goes through Ronosaka (right in the figure) to Kameyama Castle, built by Mitsuhide Akechi, Tamba Sasayama Castle (upper middle star in the figure), then south to Tachigui, where Tamba pottery studios gather (middle left in the figure), and then through Sanda to Arima Onsen, located at the upper Kobe area (lower left star in the figure).
This trip will start from Kaizu (lower middle star in the figure) on the northern shore of Lake Biwa, follow the official road of the Nara Period, pass through Border and Hikita (middle star in the figure), Tsuruga (upper middle star in the figure), Takefu, and head south on the Hokkoku Kaido, crossing Lake Yogo (lower right star in the figure) and Kinomoto over Tochinokidouge. The related history is that of the ancient exchange with Bohai Sea in northeastern China, Emperor Tsugitai, who is predicted to have greatly changed the ancient emperor system, and Katsuie Shibata and Hideyoshi Toyotomi in the Warring States Period.
Setouchi Triennale: Art (Chichu Art Museum, Lee Ufan Museum, Teshima Art Museum, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum), James Bond (007), and Udon noodles on the islands (Naoshima Benesse Hotel) in the Seto Inland Sea (Naoshima, Teshima, Takamatsu)
This trip is centered on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture, and covers the period from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period and during the war.
This trip will be to Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. As the title suggests, this will be a small “walking” trip around the coast of Kobe City. The trip will start from Kobe Portopia Hotel at the southern end of Port Island, a man-made island in the Port of Kobe, and take the Portliner to the Ikuta River, getting off at the Trade Center. The tour continues to Nunobiki Waterfall behind Shin-Kobe Station, the Old Foreign Settlement in downtown Kobe, and the Kobe Overseas Chinese History Museum.
This trip will take us to Hiroshima Prefecture, known as Aki and Bingo. The journey begins at Hiroshima Station and takes us along National Route 54 to Honjo City, Yoshida, which was the base of the Mori Clan, famous for the anecdote of the three arrows, and Miyoshi, where there are many ancient burial mounds.
This trip will be to Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Yokohama is a huge city with a population of 3.7 million, and for the purpose of this Kaido Yuku journey, we will cover the area of Kannai, which was considered the Yokohama district at the end of the Edo period.
The journey begins at Scaphaiman-ji Temple, where Ryotaro Shiba’s comrade-in-arms is the chief priest, and from Zogata, with its unique landscape of numerous small islands scattered among rice paddies, to Akita, Noshiro, and on to Kazuno. The journey continues on to the stories of Ryokichi Kano, a prominent scholar of the Meiji era, and Konan Naito, the founder of Oriental historiography.
This trip will be in Hida, a mountainous area in the northern part of Gifu Prefecture. We will take a cab from Gifu Hatori Shinkansen to Hida, pass through Nakayama Nanasato, Gero Onsen, Ichinomiya Mizunashi Shrine, see the carving of Jingoro Left, the ruins of Matsukura Castle, Hida Furukawa, and walk north to Mozumi in Kamioka Town to see Koshinaka, the border with Toyama Prefecture, before heading to Takayama city center.
From Volume 29 of Kaido Yuku: On the Roads of Shimabara and Amakusa. This trip will take us to the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture and the Amakusa Islands in Kumamoto Prefecture in the northwestern part of Kyushu. The route of the trip includes a flight to Nagasaki, then from Nagasaki Airport, along the Shimabara Peninsula to Shimabara Bay, through Shimabara Castle and Hara Castle to Kuchinotsu, where the story of the Shimabara Rebellion of the Edo period takes place. He then takes a ferry to Amakusa Shimojima in Kumamoto Prefecture, climbs the hill of Martyrdom Park at the ruins of Hondo (Hondo) Castle, and describes the Amakusa Shiro Rebellion that occurred at the same time as the Shimabara Rebellion.
For this trip, we will take a ferry from Fukahi, a small port in Osaka, to Sumoto Port on Awaji Island. We will drive through Awaji Island, cross the Onaruto Bridge connecting Tokushima and Awaji Island to view the Naruto whirlpools, go to Tosadomari to think of Kinukino and mention the achievements of the fishermen of Douura who spread the one-line fishing method and tegus at Douura, then go to Omabiko Shrine and view the German Bridge. After that, we will go out to the Yoshino River basin, following the ruins of Katsubata Castle and the Tanaka family residence, and experience the Awa Odori dance at a familiar ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant). At Reizanji Temple, the first of 88 temples in Shikoku, we will reflect on the pilgrimage and Itsue Takagun, and then continue west along the northern bank of the Yoshino River, passing through Wakimachi and Ikeda, on our way to Iya, a “hidden valley” hypothesized to be a place of the Heike clan’s fallen soldiers.
This trip will take us to Negoroji Temple in Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, which was built by Kakuhan, a man of great prosperity who preached the Mikigon Pure Land, and the Negoro Sect, which boasted military prowess as an artillery group.
This trip is in Fukushima Prefecture. This time, we will travel the Shirakawa-Aizu Road in Fukushima Prefecture. The route will take us to Sakai no Myojin, the border between the Kanto and Tohoku regions, Shirakawa no Seki, of which no clear trace remains, Oiwake no Myojin, and Inugami Dam. Entering Shirakawa City, the tour will visit Sekigawa-dera Temple, which is associated with Munehiro Yuki, lord of Shirakawa Castle, and then visit the Shirakawa Harist Orthodox Church, where an icon painted by Rin Yamashita, an icon painter of the Meiji era, is on display. After that, the tour will visit Ouchi-juku, an inn town that remains as it was in the Edo period, and then extend to Aizu City to visit the tomb of Ujisato Gamo, the lord of Aizu at the end of the 16th century who developed the castle town, Iimoriyama, where the Byakkotai (a group of Japanese warriors who were killed by the Shogunate in Edo period) committed suicide, and the tomb and Ehiji temple of the Matsudaira family who were active in the Shinsengumi, the Shogunate’s military wing in the Edo period.
This trip will be around Akasaka, Tokyo. Starting from a hotel in Akasaka, the tour will walk around Unnanzaka, Tameike, and Hie Shrine, drawing in your mind the scenes of Akasaka in the Edo period. At Hikawa Shrine and Toyokawa Inari, you will talk about Yoshimune Tokugawa and Koshiaki Ooka, and at Aoyama-dori, Nogizaka, and Keyakizaka, you will hear about the episode of Kigenori Nogi and the life of Korekiyo Takahashi.
- On the Road to Okinawa and the Sakishima Islands
This time, we will travel to Okinawa Prefecture. After visiting Shuri and Itoman Fishing Port on the main island of Okinawa, we will go to Ishigaki Island, the entrance to the Sakishima Islands, to visit the market, Miyara-dennai, Ishigaki Family, and Miyajima Gogoku, and then to Taketomi Island by boat to visit Inu no Ido, Ushioka no Oka, Kaji-toge in the forest, Hoshisuna no Hama, Kihoin, and Shushukan, Ogi-mori, Shimanaka Family, and the Asato Family of Mijo Kuyama. Next, from Ishigaki Airport to Yonaguni Island, Japan’s westernmost island, the trip ends with a visit to Sanninu-dai, the large rock and monument of the female chief San’ai Isoba, and Tunguta.
- On the Road to Inaba and Hoki
This trip will take visitors to the Tottori region, which is steeped in ancient culture, including the Shirouto beach known for the myth of the “White Hare of Inaba” and places associated with Otomo no Iemochi, a Manyo (710-794) poet. The route will start from Hayano in Chigashira-cho, Tottori Prefecture, and return along the riverside national highway to Tottori, where Muneyoshi Yanagi’s folk art movement will be described, and after visiting the Inaba National Office site and thinking about Otomo no Iemochi, the tour will head to Tottori Sand Dunes, then leave Tottori for the Hakuto Coast, famous for the myth of the “Inaba White Hare”. Then, we will go to Kurayoshi, eat tofu at Santokuzan Kaiseiin and talk about the charm of Kurayoshi kasuri, and head to Yonago, where we will see Mt.
- Ryotaro Shiba’s Road to Kyoto: A Walk through Kyoto’s Famous Temples and Daitokuji Temple Dada, Zen, and a Rest
This trip will focus on Daitokuji Temple in Murasaki, Kita-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, as described in “Mahayana Buddhism, the Nirvana Sutra, and Zen Teachings” and “The Zen Way of Life. Daitokuji Temple is located in the city of Murasaki in Kyoto. The temple is located in a town called Murasaki, which literally means a field where purple grass grows. In ancient times, the color purple was considered the noblest color, and the grass from which the dye for this color is extracted was purple grass.
- On the Road: Honjo and Fukagawa neighborhoods
This time, the journey starts from Fukagawa, where we will meet steeplejacks and former kawanami (raftsmen of Kiba), and think about the people who have lived chivalrously since the old days of Edo. In Honjo, we will visit the ruins of Kira Uenosuke’s mansion and the birthplace of Katsu Kaishu, and think about Sanyutei Enraku and Kawatake Mokuami, who lived in the Honjo Wari-water area. We will also take a boat ride down the Sumida River, view the town and bridges from the river, and finally visit Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s novel at Kaikyoin in Ryogoku.
- Kaido yuku Hongo neighborhood
From Kaido yuku, Volume 37. In this issue, we will discuss Hongo, a town that played the role of “switchboard” for accepting Western civilization and distributing it to the provinces during the Meiji period when Japan was rushing to modernize, and where Japan’s first university was located.
- The Rise and Fall of World History: Where Will Humanity Go?
- A History of Christianity without Honor
- What is the “Wabi” of Sen no Rikyu?
- Scythia and the Xiongnu
- The Celtic Water Vein
- The Hegemony of Modern Europe
- Reading Haiku from a Haiku History and Communication PerspectiveHaiku has its roots in renga. In renga, a number of renshu (people who attend renga and renku gatherings and recite together) take turns reading the first 31 characters of a waka poem (575) and the last 31 characters (77) to create 100 haiku.Unlike novels, in which a single person creates his or her own worldview, haiku is a collaborative effort, and like social networking sites such as Twitter today, it is a means of conveying a moment of daily life in short sentences.
- Art and Programming
In “Hackers and Painters: Creators of the Computer Age” by Paul Graham, a well-known lisp hacker, the connection between programming, design, and drawing is discussed. In “Beautiful Code,” also published by O’Reilly, top programmers talk about their feelings about “beautiful code” and describe code emotionally as “graceful, expressive, and full of beauty. Even if they are not such well-known people, there are probably many people who find beauty in programming, which is supposed to be digital and inorganic in nature.
At Clojure/Conj2018, one of the Clojure conferences, I saw Tyler Hobbs give a talk on generative art called “CODE GOES IN, ART COMES OUT”.
According to wiki, generative art is
Generative art refers to works of art that are algorithmically generated, synthesized, or constructed by computer software algorithms or mathematical/mechanical/random autonomous processes. By taking advantage of the computational freedom and computational speed of computers, and by implementing theories derived from natural science, many works are made to express themselves in a unified, organic manner, somewhere between artificial and natural.
Generative art is an art form that uses natural scientific systems as its main creative method. The difference between generative art and other art forms is that generative art requires the design and creation of mechanisms that operate autonomously. Works of art with systems may implement scientific theories such as complex systems and information theory.
It is said that “new prints” are currently enjoying a bit of a boom among art fans. When I once read an interview with an overseas arphist visiting Japan, his answer to a routine question about what he did in Japan was, “I bought prints.
Shinpanga is a very niche genre of woodblock prints produced in the 50 years or so from the Taisho era to the early Showa era, while inheriting the tradition of Ukiyo-e production since the Edo era. In the past few years, art exhibitions have been held all over the country.
In Zen Buddhism, enlightenment is “the realization of the Buddha nature, which is the original nature of all living things. It is said that Buddha nature is “the ability to perceive things that are beyond the scope of verbal understanding. Enlightenment is passed on from master to disciple, not through words (logos), but through sensory and physical experiences such as zazen and koans. It is said that the state of enlightenment can be expressed in various ways, and in Japan in particular, enlightenment is expressed in poetry, painting, architecture, and other fields.
In 2016, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno held a special exhibition entitled “Zen: Shaping the Mind,” commemorating the 1150th anniversary of Rinzai Zenji and the 250th anniversary of Hakuin Zenji. Zen: Shaping the Mind” held at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno in 2016.
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