Winter comes as if grace arrives

恩寵のように冬が来る Winter comes as if grace arrives

From Print 2012, Chapter 19

信号が変わる。

―むかしね。谷山豊TANIYAMA Yutakaって人がいたんだ。

Ａは声をすこし大きくして言った。

―若くして亡くなった。婚約者もたしかまもなく亡くなった。彼とその友人が作った予想が、フェルマー予想Fermat Theoremを解くかぎになった。ワイルズWilesという人が解いてもう十年以上になる。それで谷山TANIYAMAの特集が雑誌に載ったことがあった。

Ｉはただ彼を見ている。

―そのときね、本屋で読みながら、すごくうらやましいとおもった。雑誌は買わなかったけど、買ってもしかたがないような気がしたから。自分にはそのときなにもなかったから。ただ、そんなふうに生きてみたい、死ぬことじゃないよ、一度生きるならそんなふうに生きたいとほんとうにおもった。それがたぶん自分には生涯できないとわかっていたから、よけいうらやましかったんだ。それがね、いまは谷山TANIYAMAのように生きている。彼のようにすごくもなんともないけど。おもいはまったく同じなんだ。

―すごいわね、ほんとうに。そんなにおもえるなんて。

書店が見えてきた。

ふたりに今、恩寵のように冬が来る。For the two, winter comes as if grace arrives.

Source: http://srfltheory.weebly.com/tale.html 

Reference: The Complete Works of TANIYAMA Yutaka / 11 November 2012

                                         Holiday in autumn, Tokyo

Coffee shop named California

Coffee shop named California

From Print 2012, Chapter 10

Ｃは事実と法則を追って、それを見出さなかった。そして或るとき突然の病いで逝った。言語学を愛した幾冊かの本を残して。最後の本の名は、言語学への開かれた扉、Janua Linguisticae Reserata。彼が言うように、扉は万人に開かれていた。ひたすら追うのであれば。

Ｃが生きていれば、今またＡに問うかもしれない。おまえは今何をしているかと。If C live, he also may ask me, "What  are you researching now?" そしてＡもまた同じように答えるだろう。And A also will answer him as same as ever.事実ではなく普遍を追っています、こりることなくと。I have pursued universals, never done facts, without repenting.  
生きていれば、あの急な階段をのぼって、天井の低いテーブルでまた話していただろうか、Ｃよ。Oh C, if you live, will we also talk on language at the table facing each other under the low ceiling of the shop, going up the steep stairs.  転注をめぐる研究の国境を超えたつながりの中で、再発見された転注論の貴重な原稿を損傷させないために、発見者みずからが飛行機に乗って届けてくれたことなどを。だから途方にくれるようにまずしかった私はどれほど勇気づけられたか、Ｃよ。駅前の路地を入ってすぐ左の、掘っ立て小屋のようだったあの店の名まえはカリフォルニア。The name of the shop is California. ぼくらの決して悲惨ではなかった忘却の紀念に、今はそれを書き記そう。For the memory of our daily forgetful life, its never miserable though poor all over, I will write down our delight.

しかしＡは、Ｃの怒るような忠告を心から謝して受け止めても、違った方向をとり続けた。事実は彼の対象ではなかった。人間の事象である以上、すべては一度事実として顕現する。そこになんらかの法則が現われるかもしれない。しかしＡはその方向を望まなかった。彼が求めていたのは、そうした事実の世界ではなく、架空の世界だった。それはたぶんこの世界をほとんどなにも説明しない。役にも立たない。それが冒瀆でないなら芸術に近かった。

言語における内的構造は、Ａの場合、集合論から図形を経て、幾何へと行き着いた。すなわち時間もまたひとつの意味である普遍的な言語を表現したものとしての図形を、明確に表記するただひとつの方法として、彼は今幾何を選び、そこにもう迷いはなかった。

Source: Tale / Print by LI Koh / 27 January 2012  

Reference: 
Under the Dim Light / 1 August 2012

Road to Language Universals / 31 December 2012
Half Farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague / 23 October 2013

Tokyo in wintry evening

10 Extracts from Tale, Print, 2012

10 Extracts from Tale, Print, 2012

17/07/2014 12:03

1. Coffee shop named California
2. Winter comes as if grace arrives
3. Generation and extinction of quantum in the field space
4. Canal, saint and wandering is over now
5. CHINO Eiichi and Prague
6. Finiteness of 3 dimensional standard flop and shutting up to finite 3 dimensional world of language from infinite 4 dimensional world
7. Non-symmetry, 1920s’ Prague and Sergej Karcevskij
8. From Hodge diamond of mirror symmetry by KONCEVICH to mirror language
9. Quantum space through Poisson manifold’s deformation quantization by Kontsevich
10. From Gromov-Witten invariant to quantum cohomology ring and Gromov-Witten potential, in the centre considered homological mirror symmetry

Tokyo

1 October 2017
SRFL Lab

40 years passed from I read WANG Guowei

40 years passed from I read WANG Guowei 

TANAKA Akio

Guantangjilin is the selection of works by WANG Guowei, which contents contains vast area of history, literature and linguistics. Some people say that his works is a thousand-year peak from Song era’s philosopher SHU Xi. I bought his book at Haifeng shudian, Kanda, Tokyo in my mid 20s. The date of colophon is February 1973, publisher is Zhonghua shuju Xianggang fenju.

Probably I bought it in 1973 or 1974. In those days I frequently went Haifeng shudian bookshop for buying Chinese classics,  mainly Qing Dynasty’s linguistic works that is called ” Xiaoxue”, Small study at China. Guantangjilin is a very difficult book to understand  by my poor study result.

His study era is from Yin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty some 2,500 years of Chinese literary history. At his vast works I was especially charmed in Qing Dynasty’s ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters, Jiaguwenzi by Chinese. After 40 years, in 2003 I wrote a small paper on language universals through this  ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters at the view point of written language.

The title is On Time Property inherent in Characters. From at that time 10 years passed by. Now I am still learning on language universals but its style is far apart from the days 2003 or 1973. Ambiguity of approach by traditional linguistics is not for my part. I dare challenge to a new frontier of description for language study using mathematics or algebraic geometry.

Refer to the next.

1. On Time Property Inherent in Characters 2003
2. From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance 2012
3. Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague 2013

Tokyo16 November 2013
Sekinan Research Field of Language

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The Time of Language Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck

The Time of Language
Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck

TANAKA Akio 

In early 1970s, I had think of language from the side of mathematics, that level of mine is very low and primitive, moreover I never had any talent to mathematics.
But my eager to trying the approach was going to overcome hard barriers before me. So the route had really fascinated my mind for long time.

At that time I had read Chinese classics almost every day. WANG Guowei*, DUAN Yucai and WANG Yingzhi. They were giants on Chinese language historically and modernly.
On the other hand I had thought of language generally, not defined by Chinese.
But in front of the vast world of language, I had stood still lonely, not taking any method for approaching.
Mathematics was the only gleam of hope in the wasteland.

I never took the route of ordinary linguistics.
I really dreamt a dream that time.
There exists set theory before me.
Probably there was the influence of Bourbaki**, that several translations to Japanese, shared from Tokyo Tosho Publisher, were on the desk of mine.
My talent and endeavour were so low, so I had not any results at that time.
My desire was deep but my hand was so shallow.
The time passed by.

In 1979 the meeting again with CHINO Eiichi*** made me the chance to learn on language, the object was clear and direct.
Language universals by mathematics became the never-ending goal of the study hereafter.
Sergej Karcevskij**** gave me the courage to the research.
All the way to investigation were taught from CHINO, who was the genuine teacher on language.
In mathematics I took the route from geometry, especially by projection.
Now I stand at algebraic geometry.
Grothendieck is in the northernmost at the end of Bourbaki.

SAITO Takeshi said at the essay on Grothendieck***** that the object of mathematics for Bourbaki was the set of being attached by construction and the object of mathematics for Grothendieck was the object of category representing the presentable functor.
The time has come for describing****** on language by mathematics despite my poor ability.
Sincere thanks for the pioneers letting us make the fascinating route of modern mathematics.

1. *WANG Guowei
Encounter in life / A Letter /2005
Influenced paper / On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 2003 , Quantum Theory for Language / 2004
2. **Bourbaki
SAITO Takeshi. Bourbaki, Mathematics Seminar, vol..41 no..4 487. Nihonhyoronsha, Tokyo, 2002.
3.***CHINO Eiicji
First met in 1969, again in 1979. Fortuitous Meeting
4. ****Sergej Karcevskij
Note on Karcevskij's theme. Note for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej's "Dudualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique"
5. *****Grothendieck
SAITO Takeshi. Grothendieck, Mathematics Seminar, vol..49 no..5 584. Nihonhyoronsha, Tokyo, 2010.
6. ******describing
Note on Grothendieck's theorem. Vector Bundle Model

Tokyo
January 10, 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language

[Note, 28 October 2014]
When I first learnt French in 1964, I was the second grade of high school. My aim to learning was to get the lowest readable situation for modern poems of French Symbolism represented by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Afterwards in 1969 I knew the importance of Martinet's work at the linguistic class of university. Probably in the early 1970s, I bought Bourbaki's books at the old-book-shop at Kanda, Tokyo, when Bourbaki's fame reached to the poor-talented linguistic student like me. I was enchanted Bourbaki's works and I somehow would like to adopt their results to my linguistic study. But my mathematical level was too low to get near Bourbaki's world. From those days my wandering around mathematics and linguistics kept long long way like the Beatles song, The long and winding road. What I again met mathematics, especially algebraic algebra was already over the twentieth century. From 2003 I began to write papers being assisted with CHINO Eiichi's advice and Sergej Karcevskij's work. At that times Chinese Qing dynasty's vast linguistic works topically represented by WANG Guowei was also assisting my study. At the result my first satisfied paper,"On Time Property Inherent in Characters"1 was completed. The theme in my life, model making of  language universals was begun further later in 2008 at Zoho site 2 sekinanlogos 3. At Complex Manifold Deformation Theory 4 I started writing more clearer descriptive papers by mathematics especially according to algebraic geometry. And now I step up one more and entered in arithmetic geometry 5 for solving more difficult themes such as dimension, synthesis and fusion of meaning in word.
Refer to the next.

1. On Time Property Inherent in Characters
2. Zoho site
3. sekinanlogos
4. Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
5. Arithmetic geometry

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Hijiribashi, Holy Bridge, Ochanomizu, Tokyo

Hijiribashi, Holy Bridge, Ochanomizu, Tokyo

 

TANAKA Akio  
                                      
The Holy Bridge is constructed at the north side of the Ochanomizu Station, Tokyo, at Chuo Line. Under flows the Outer Moat of the Imperial Palace, constructed in the medieval period, some 550 years ago. The Edo Castle ever had the vast area in the central part of Tokyo. Now the Inner Moat is perfectly remained but the Outer Moat is partly remained mainly in the north part of Tokyo. Around Ochanomizu area now become the typical cultural zone of Tokyo, where many universities and colleges are gathered.
The Holy Bridge is named for what in the northern part there is the Yushima-seido, the Holy Building of Confucius which was constructed in 1690 and the southern part, there is the Nicolai-do, Cathedral of the Eastern Orthodox Church. So the bridge connects East and West, the two meet on the bridge. 
The church was first built in 1891 and rebuilt in 1929 after the Kanto Plain Great Earthquake occurred in 1923. The name Nicolai is originated by the founder Nicolai Primate of Khristos Orthodox Church of Japan. The bridge was also constructed in 1925 after the Earthquake. This Holy Bridge is one of the most fantastic old-fashioned bridges in Tokyo. I love these old Tokyo's images. New architectures will be constructed one after another , but the old ones can never constructed as the same having the long and historical heritage.

Tokyo
24 July 2012

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Ode to Kanda, Tokyo

Ode to Kanda

“I need not more wander the book shop streets.” / From Tale, Print, 2012

This tale was written by TANAKA Akio, pen-named LI Koh in autumn 2012 for remembering the poor but brilliant youth time of myself. This is one of my favourite phrases in this tale.
The book shop streets described in the tale is Kanda, Tokyo, which is located in the central Tokyo, where I frequently walked seeking the old Chinese classic books for the study from Oriental way of linguistics. In late 1960s, the streetcars were surely running in the old fashioned streets of Kanda, now perfectly changed to the subway streets.

From Print 2012, Chapter 10

もはや本屋街をさまようことはない。I need not more wander the book shop streets. 対象は私のうちにある。The object exists in my mind. 私はただこの運河をながめていればいい。I would better watch the canal. 遍歴は終わった。Wandering is over now.  たぶん永遠にマイスターにはなれないだろうが、みずからの小さな仕事場で、日が落ちるまで作業をすればいい。Perhaps I would not become meister  forever. In my narrow working place, I ‘d better do my work till sunset. すると仕事場の窓辺を聖者が通って行く。 So out of the window by the working place,  the saint passes by. かつてそんなロシアの民話を読んだ。I ever read the Russian folk tale like that.

秋の日ぐれは早い。The Autumn evening is fast. 路面電車のヘッドランプがまぶしいくらいだ。The headlight of streetcar  is dazzling. 黄褐色の窓に少ない乗客が照らし出され、古本屋街の方へ消えて行った。In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared  to the book streets. 駅の売店がにぎやかな橙の光に包まれている。The station shop is also lighted up by the yard’s busy orange light.

1. 40 years passed from I read WANG Guowei / 16 November 2013
2. Prague in 1920s, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij’s paper “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique” / Print, 2012

Tokyo
26 November 2014
SIL

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