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Abstract

 

The theme of this conference is “ WIND & EARTH”.
The meaning of wind is communication and the meaning of earth is culture of East Asia and each country.
_We wish to find Identity of each country and East Asia.
_We have 2 kinds of culture in this world. One is culture of Christianity and the other is of primitive concept that people think as a part of nature.
_Modern thinking came from Christianity who believes God.

The meaning of Nature is not same as nature of East Asian.
_European culture before Christianity is mostly same as East Asian culture. We think the concept of East Asia has possibilities to become the concept of the world.
_Leaving from Monotheism, believing Nature.
Not thinking Nature as ‘Nature without Human kind‘, believing as ‘A part of Nature‘.
It is East Asian concept.


Human is one of the animals

 

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_We can see new world.
_We can find new harmonies between Human and Cosmos.
_The concept of “GROUP/COLONY” is one of most important one.
Concept of “GROUP/COLONY“ is from East Asian.
_We need not to have the Focus to make group and colony.

 

WIND IS MALE AND EARTH IS FEMALE.
WIND IS HUNTER AND EARTH IS FARMER.
WIND IS HUNTER AND EARTH IS FARMER.
WIND CARRY AND EARTH RAISE THE LIVES.
WIND IS COMMUNICATION AND EARTH IS GROUND.
WIND IS INVISIBLE AND EARTH IS UNCLEAR.
WIND IS GOING TO VANITY AND EARTH IS GOING TO DIVERSE.
SENSE OF NATURE _We don’t depend on God but Nature.
RELATION WITH OTHERS _We are living not for sin but shame.
SENSE OF MA _We realize ourselves with others. We have no concept of ‘the Self’.
“GROUP/COLONY“
_Group/Colony is the structure without infrastructure.
_Group/Colony is dynamic structure only by THE MINUTUNESS.
“GROUP/COLONY & CONFUCIANISM”
_五常/仁、義、礼、智、信
_五倫/父子、君臣、夫婦、長幼、朋友の関係
_THE CONFUCIANISM IS THE PRECEPTS OF CORRELATION
MYSELF _ OTHERS
OLD _ YOUNG GENERATION
MAN _ WOMAN
HUSBAND – WIFE
RICH _ POOR
HIGH _ LOW
RACE _ RACE
CULTURE _ CULTURE
_CONFUCIANISIM IS STRONGLY RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF GROUP / COLONY
_’GROUP/COLONY’ is not TREE but FOREST.
_The concept of GROUP/COLONY is related to CONFUCIANISM.

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仁_The love to the others.
義_The shame to the others.
礼_The model of social harmony
孝_The respect for parents.
忠_The honesty
_They are same sense of ‘GROUP/COLONY’.
_CONFUCIANISM is the CONCEPT of coexistence and COLONY is a STYLE of them.
“THE THEORY OF GROUP/COLONY“
1_ THE WHOLE IS IN THE MINUTENESS.
The minuteness is not in the whole.
2_ The MINUTENESS OCCURS FROM THE SENSE.
If you find the minuteness, it is come from a sense and meanings.
3_ A SENSE FROM A MINUTENESS FORMS ‘ MA ‘.
The minuteness having SENSE will gather and “MA“ will appear.
4_ “MA” IS FERTILE AND FULL OF SENSE.
”MA” is not void.

5_ DRAW A MINUTENESS TO REALIZE “MA”.
East Asian people likes the shadows of the light, the reflections of the light and they enjoy the moon. They enjoy everything indirectly.
6_ “MA” IS CONNECTER OF THE MINUTENESS.
The minuteness connected to the another minuteness to make the COLONY through “MA”.
7_THE CONFUCIANISM has the concept of MA & COLONY.
1_A sense grow up to the MINUTENESS/Furniture and interior space will appear.
2_A sense grow up to the MINUTENESS/House and Village will appear.

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Aesthetic Sense of East Asia

 

1. Wind & Earth = Natural Features / Raised in the earth of Asia and carried to the world by wind

The theme of the conference is “Wind and Earth”. That is, they are natural features. Wind refers to affects, racial migration or cultural diffusion while earth indicates the indigenization and penetration of the carried-in culture.
Understanding the identity of the East Asia and three countries in the region – China, Korea and Japan and clarifying the unique culture of each of them, I wish to expand the culture and aesthetic sense of East Asia to the world.

2. Two world views / based on the relation between human beings and nature

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Figure 1: Christian world where human beings are in conflict with nature

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Figure 2: East Asian world where human beings live in harmony with animals

 

There are two world views in the world today. One is the thought and aesthetic sense of East Asia, the root of which has deeply connected to the primitive view of nature. On the other hand, the culture of the West believes in God and tends to think human beings who were created by God are superior to nature based on Christian monotheism. The Western countries before Christianity had the similar primitive view of nature to that of the thought and aesthetic sense of East Asia indicating that the bases of the global civilizations were not so conflicting after all. The sense of order or harmony in the heart of human beings of the world can be found by exploring the sense of beauty grown in East Asia.

This sense of beauty of East Asia will become the fundamental thought that forms the world order after the modern times.
I intend to discover the true nature of human beings by researching the East Asian thought. The questions standing in the middle of such attempts are “what is nature?” and “what are human beings?”

It is for the entire people of the world to recover the thought of East Asia that considers nature as all things in the universe including the earth, the sky and human beings, opposing the thought based on monotheism that thinks nature as natural matters and all living things except human beings.
It is to build a world where people can change [ART / ARTFICIALITY] that is in conflict with [NATURE / NATURE] into [ARTFICIALITY / NATURE] that is mixed and harmonized with [NATURE / NATURE].
The desirable harmony between the universe and human beings is born from there.
We can find harmonies in a group. We want to carry the thought kept and raised in the earth of East Asia to the world through wind.

3. T he thought of Group in East Asia

3.1 Natural feelings / Dependence on nature where people are not in need of God

The most distinctive features of East Asian thought are that it does not require the one and only God and people consider themselves as a part of nature. In this environment, men can accept even life and death as a part of natural law that all things keep changing. Men are equal to elephants, cats, sheep, trees and gravel.

3.2 Sense of other people / Sense of being ashamed to other people, not the sin against God = Group and Confucianism

The social norms affecting the daily life of East Asian people are not the sin against God but the sense of being ashamed to other people. The sense of being ashamed to other people or their society may be considered as a way of life paying too much attention to other people without having faith or inner value system; however, it is not. East Asian people incorporate the consciousness of other people as their own to set the norms of daily life containing other people and the mankind inside them.
This thought is related to the idea of a group that consists of structures ensuring harmonies with other members of the group in a dynamic manner; for example, animals rather than that of the West where value standards lie in God who is in the outside of them.

3.3 Sense of space (MA) / The resonance with other people establishes oneself
      = Lack of self

The thought of group in East Asia shows that human beings live in resonance with other people by nature from the beginning.
Zeami’(世阿弥)s [秘すれば花: It is a flower when it is hidden] indicates that a man can use his imagination and creative power to understand something that is hidden. The significance of communication is to interpret, resonate and create in a discontinuous manner by reader (observer) in his world, in which no “self” is required, rather than directly passing on something as it is. It is because oneself is recognized by others.
[Between-space (MA)] is the space open to the participation of readers.