Thursday 24 March 2016

Kawagoe, Castle town 40 km west from Tokyo

SIL Lab / Photo Gallery


 SIL Lab /Gallery

Kawagoe, Saitama Japan is the castle town 40 km west from Tokyo.
The city is famous by former castle site, old warehouses, temples, traditional Japanese candies and many agri-foods supplied to Tokyo area.
We went there at 18 March to buy traditional candy, fresh vegetables and after to take a walk among the fantastic old warehouses (Kura by Japanese) in the city.
More detail snaps are seen 

Tuesday 22 March 2016

SIL Lab


SIL Lab is a portal and search site of Sekinan Library, that was founded in 1986 at Tokyo for studying language universals at first from ideogram and after making models using algebraic geometry.
For more details see following SRFL EssaySRFL Paper and SIL News written between 2003 and 2016.
For total overview refer to 
SRFL Collection. Tokyo, 22 March 2016, Sekinan Library.

Thursday 17 March 2016

ONO Shinobu and Berhard Karlgren

ONO Shinobu and Berhard Karlgren

TANAKA Akio

In December 1979, I submitted the post-graduate thesis on Japanese Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835)'s maiden work Sangoshiiki that comparatively considered the three regions, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Probably in January 1980, I met with Prof. ONO Shinobu at the corridor of university. He said to me that he read my thesis and my thinking method using at the thesis was resembled in the method ofBernhard Karlgren at his paper "The Authenticity and nature of the Tso Chuan" 1926. He succesively talkedto me, "TANAKA, did you read the paper?" I promptly answered " Professor, No."

My thesis was presented the other prof. who specialist of  the old Buddhism in Japan and probably he sent my thesis to his dear fried ONO. My approach was the study on the appearance frequency distribution of all the expletives appeared in the text.

I knew this famous Sweden sinologist's name earlier and already bought one of his important work Grammata Setica Recensa, 1957 in the early 1970s at Kaifu Shoten Book shop in Kanda, Tokyo. But the paper shown by ONO was perfectly unknown at that time. ONO invite me to his study room and handed me the book Saden Shingi Ko" that was the translation of Karlgren's paper  by ONO and published in 1939 from Bunkyudo Shoten Book shop at Hongo, Tokyo, which was one of the leading publisher in the field of Chinese classics in 1930s.

ONO was one of the scholar on Chinese literature from Yuan dynasty to the modern China and the member of Chugoku Bungaku Dokokai, Chinese Literature Society in Japan that led the study of modern Chinese literature in Japan from 1940s. with his colleagues TAKEUCHI Yoshimi, TAKEDA Taijun and the like. In 1980s he had engaged in the translation of long novel, The Journey to the West in the Ming dynasty all the time of his non-university's work.

Going back to the past, I received ONO's lecture " Chinese literature and Modern Japan" at his study room or dean room, who was the dean of the faculty for humanities department. In my memory he lectured precisely to Japanese novelist ODA Takeo, now not famous recently.

Karlgren's book was difficult for my talent at that time but somehow  read over and gave back to ONO deeply appreciating his kindness. And some years later in Kanda, Tokyo, I found this Karlgren's book and bought. The book shop's name is Yamamoto Shoten, one of the long established Chine classic book shop in Kanda.  The date is 2 November 1982 by the receipt put in the book.

One day probably in spring 1980, on the train on the way home, I met ONO and told him on his the new lecture on Yuanqu, Yuan dynasty's poems that was frequently said very difficult for modern readers.
I said to him, "Wonderful lecture for excellent undergraduates." He returned definitely," Very important to study such a hard work for me still now."

ONO Shino died suddenly by disease in 18 December 1980, age 74. The conversation at the train was the last hearing of this profound scholar.


Tokyo
3 March 2015
Sekinan Library

Sekinan comment, Classified essay site of Sekinan Library

Sekinan Comment

Sekinan Comment shows the linguistic comments to the people taking interest in language and its surrounding events.
Base site is Sekinan Library which was founded in 1986 at Tachikawa, Tokyo, becoming the 30th anniversary this year.
Library's Working sites are now categorised as several fields and listed as the following.
Portal Site Visualised
Picture

Story, A Youth of Student Enthralled by Language


Picture

Language, Amalgamation of Mathematics and Physics

Language, Amalgamation
of Mathematics and Physics
 


TANAKA Akio
               
                         

 


Language will become the urgent agenda of this century. Language will be recognised as the amalgamation of mathematics and physics. Because language is mathematically designed physical transmission system in human being. This transmission is finite and compact within a human body  but infinite and eternal connected with the outer worlds in the universe.
[References]
  1. Relation between mathematics and physics  Operad Meaning Theory. From Cell to Operad. 24 March 2013. ifbetruezoho
  2. finite and compact  Simplicial Space language. Composition of Word. 20 January 2013. ifbetruezoho
  3. Infinite and eternal Infinite Loop Space language. Word as Infinite Loop Space. 6 December 2012. sekinanmodel

                                                                 Tokyo
                                                         15 April 2014

                                       Sekinan Research Field of Language

Wednesday 16 March 2016

To my dear friend, KANEKO Yutaka

To my dear friend, KANEKO Yutaka

TANAKA Akio
              
                         
                                                             

We were always sitting at the right end of the classroom, where the seats were near the entrance from the corridor, so classmates entered the room with  rattling noises. But we liked the seats rather satisfying. We were G class of the third year of the high school, which class was all hoped to go universities of the mathematical or science fields.

The seats were free to sit but almost determined by the personalities. Serious were sitting at the comparatively before widows sites. The seats were silent and easy to concentrate. We were also serious to the learning but liked the most bad seats that could not concentrate by the various noises for entering and out-going. Sometimes the 

KANEKO Yutaka and I first met  at this class and became best friend. He probably  hoped to go to chemistry and I was physics. He was very good at mathematics and I was ordinary at math. I sometimes asked him how to solve the hard quests of math. At that time he smiled to me and said, " there's any little paper? The problem can be written enough by such a little space."

Over the our seats, frequently flew to the end of the class where the trash can was set always filled with the calculate-papers for math and writing of English. The members of the class all were eager to solve math quests for preparing to entrance examinations to the universities. At the result they threw the used papers over us to the can. So around the can, the scraps were littered with. I was never tidy but I was the nearest one to the can, so I sometimes went to trash dump to clean the can. 

After we graduated the high school,  he studied chemistry as planned at university. But I selected language study, not physics. I also liked  philosophical or linguistic fields for their long historical heritages. What I returned to the field related with physics was already over the year 30s. My research object was narrowed to language universals using mathematical writing or physical approach.   

After half a century, he died by disease in his researching way. I have learnt same theme on language using maths way not solving any quest from 1920s' Linguistic Circle of Prague. I dream that over my head still now vain calculate-papers are being thrown to the can behind us. If I ask him to help me for solving, he will say to me wanting tiny paper to write the answer concisely with his dear smiling as ever.

References
1. Language, amalgamation of mathematics and physics / 13 May 2013        
2. 
Clifford Algebra A trial for amalgamation of mathematics and physics / 20 April 2014
3. Reversion Conjecture Revised /1 May 2014


                                                                      Tokyo
                                                     22 May 2013 Text written
                                                 20 April 2014 Reference added

                                                 8 August 2014 Reference added
                                            Sekinan Research Field of Language

    Linguistic Circle of Prague

    Linguistic Circle of Prague

    The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught from CHINO Eiichi in his class of Structural Linguistics in the late 1970s. 

    We first met at the university in 1969. He was young, probably the age 30s. I was 21 years old. Now referring his chronological record, CHINO was born in 1932, graduated Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1955, entered Carrel University at Czechoslovakia in 1958 and returned to Japan in 1964. So we met after 5 years from his returning. Sometimes we conversed at the coffee shop near the station we used. California, it was the name of the shop, up the rattled stairs, under the dim light. It was the youth time of mine and probably with him. 
    The greatest thing he gave me was teaching me the existence of KARCEVSKIJ Sergei in the Linguistic Circle of Prague. My latter half life was almost determined by KARCEVSLIJ's one paper, " Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" .One day on the train after school, he calmly but definitely said to me that he never was linguist because he never discovered any new language or law and he only was the introducer to general linguistics. 

    Now I really think that I am also never linguist nor introducer. I only love language, so have written on language or its around till now. CHINO taught me the the study or rather more deep attitude to the life itself. 


    Regretfully he died in 2002, age 70.He wrote several books on linguistics. The masterpiece that I confirmed is Janua Linguisticae reserata 1994, that is the general invitation to linguistics for further studying of wide and deep view. The title was determined by the famous book of Jan Amos Komensky 1592-1670, Janua Linguarum reserata 1632. Here I feel CHINO's deep love to the history and culture to Czechoslovakia where he studied for Czech in 7 years.


    [Note] 19 July 2012

    I frequently heard on Linguistic Circle of Prague (LCP) from CHINO. But now standing in the twilight of my learning, I have not understood anything about it essentially, but still now it has been much heritage for contemporary language study than my thinking. I am already old and can never start to cultivate the new frontier on LCP or its successive study. Only saying is what I really recognise that LCP and Russian philology is the heimat of my language study. It is and will be the heimat of my soul evermore.
    [Note 2] 14 December 2015
    I have not visited Prague till now. In the remained life, I hope that someday I will visit the Golden city, that my teacher CHINO Eiichi called Prague so, and also told me the days of Charles university in Prague and his near-graduation-time of youth with the deepest memories dear to him.

    Tokyo

    13 July 2012
    19 July 2012 Note added
    14 December 2015 Note 2 added
    Sekinan Research Field of Language

    Monday 14 March 2016

    ​Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in 1970s


    ​Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in 1970s

    TANAKA Akio

    In 1970s at Tokyo or in my age 20s there surely exists glitter of youth in my life, now I remember.
    In those days, in Japan many fabulous magazines were successively published. Episteme,Toshi(City)、Chugoku(China) and the likes. Especially I loved reading Episteme which had printed many philosophical or philological articles as the form of special issues concentrated important philosopher, thinker and writer. The chief editor of Episteme was NAKANO Mikitaka(1943-2007), probably one of the best editors in the latter half of the 20th century in Japan.  The most impressive number was Ludwig Wittgenstein(1889-1951), probably in 1977. Also influenced from the issue of Kurt Gödel(1906-1978)who gave me the possibility of set theory.
    In my life, Wittgenstein gave the big influence for thinking and writing style, never entering or approaching his essential philosophical themes.Aftermillennium year when I started the regular writing on language universals, my writing style was resembling in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. My paper written in 2003, Quantum Theory for Language shows a very imitative style to him. This tendency kept on for some time till I changed to adopt algebraic method for more clear description to the themes.
    1970s was a relatively calm times after those university’s revolution in the late 1960s in which I also compellingly rolled in. In those days I almost had been wandering between library and old book shops aiming my life-time true themes cowardly avoiding the turmoils of university and towns. Blaise Pascal(1623-1662)’s Pansees was my favourite one. One day at Kanda’s Taiwan chinese book shop Kaifu Shoten, I bought WANG Guowei(1877-1927)’s Guantangjilin that opened the new frontier for classical Chinese philology mainly streamed by “Small Study”, traditional exegetics in China. Influenced WANG Guowei I wrote a paper titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters, 2003 by which I began the latter start of language study.
    In 1970s, I had cherished a dream in which I wanted to use mathematical description and get the essential of language. But I had not any ability to proceed the study for it while I read at random several mathematical books. One day I found and bought the amount Nicolas Bourbaki(1935-)’s text books at old book shop in Kanda, Tokyo. They were hard to keep reading for my talent in those days. After all, the books were put aside the desk. The remaining in my mind was adoration to Bourbaki and their brilliant achievement. My return to Bourbaki was long after in 1990s when I again tried the pursuit of language having a clear vision to study language universals according to the Linguistic Circle of Prague, especially aiming to resolve the supposition presented by Sergej Karcevskij(1884-1955).
    Turning round the past days, my way was always narrow and winding road. But it keeps till now not breaking off in any situations. The way was finely glittering in my youth days despite under the cloudy sky. Probably I have kept happily walking till now being assisted by many people especially at the field of language, mathematics and relevant studies.
    At random now I remember the dear names from whom I  never cannot hear their voices. HASEGAWA Hiroshi, CHEN Donghai Chinese languageKAJIMURA Hideki, CHO Shokichi Korean languageNatary Muravijowa Russian languageONO Shinobu Chinese literatureMIIYAZAKI Kenzo, FURUTA Hiromu, KONDO Tadayoshi Japanese literatureANDO Tsuguo French poemSAEKI Shoichi HaikuIKEDA Hiroshi Japanese classical dramaSAITO Kohei sculptureYAMAGISHI Tokuhei bibliographyNISHI Junzo Chinese philosophyKAWASAKI Tsuneyuki BuddhismCHINO Eiichi Russian language, the Linguistic Circle of Prague. At last dear friend of high school days KANEKO Yutakmathematics and our youth.

    Tokyo
    6 March 2015
    Sekinan Library

    SRFL Data, The new gateway to Sekinan Library

    SRFL Data

    Sekinan Library

    Founded in 1986



    In 1986 I established Sekinan Library for the base of study at Tachikawa, Tokyo. At that time my main theme was declined to the study of old Chinese character's classical semantics using the traditional study of the form of characters reading Qing Dynasty's WANG Guowei. The study from the direction had not given me so rich results. I at the same time read some mathematical books influenced from Bourbaki that was the big stream in 1970s in Japan. Set theory represented by Gödel was also the favourite at the time. Read more.

    Tokyo
    14 March 2016

    Sunday 13 March 2016

    Now I am Enough Old for Remembering the Past

    Now I am Enough Old for Remembering the Past 


    TANAKA Akio
                                          
    Recently I read Susan Sontag's WHERE THE STRESS FALLS, 2001. The impression is a little different with the other books.
    I was never the good reader of her, but her existence was always strong and had glittered.
    The time was Sixties that contained the infinite things in it.
    Now I am enough old for remembering the time.
    She wrote a fine essay on the time, Thirty Years Later ... , 1996. The pages are short but sufficient to describe the time that was infinite and endless.
     If her life was able to be shine, while my Sixties was always under the tiny dim light.
    At the place where I was, the long view never could be seen. I never thought on the things as I was very coward and was fluttered even at the very tiny event of the time. I was infirm and timidity.
    What I could do at that time was read or turned pages of the text books of some foreign languages.
    How little and shallow heart I had, pitiable and poor existence. Probably till now.

    Reference
    Under the Dim Light

    Tokyo
    27 September 2012
    Sekinan Research Field of Language

    Friday 11 March 2016

    SRFL Data, Visual site of Sekinan Library

    SRFL Data



    SRFL Data is the visual site of Sekinan Library
    Individual sites of Sekinan Library arranged  by areas of study.

    Tokyo
    11 March 2016

    Search sites of Sekinan Library

    11/03/2016 11:24
    At Sekinan Library, several search means are ready for use to the students of language universals.
    Next table is the update sites for using.
    • SRFL Group
    SRFL Collection -  Comprehensive work of Sekinan
    SRFL Lab - Invitation 
    SRFL Note - Various notes
    SRFL Essay - Essay
    SRFL Paper - Paper
    • Sekinan Group
    •     Provenance of Study
    Sekinan Research Field of Language - Succession of Sekinan Library from 2003



    Read more: http://srfl-collection.webnode.com/news/search-site-of-sekinan-library/