Journals in 1975
Here are some briefings of what is inside those (3) journals from 1975.
You can read more about all the journals currently being translated and annotated by Conner and Natsuki, thanks to them both for all the hard work so far.
-Seems it is soon after he moved to London.
-Some important information in them such as biographies he wrote by himself and the plan of some trips (He might have gone for travel around Thailand and Hong Kong around this time.)
-A lot of philosophical and artistic contemplation as well as surrealistic texts
-The comments about having given up everything and reached a state of nothingness also show the progress of Buddhist enlightenment (as seen in other journals from this period of time).
-Some mechanical design memos.
-Some drafts for proposals of photographic commission works
-Quite a few erotic writing about being with ladies, I am not sure if that was a reflection of actual experience or more of imagined ones.
-Some Chinese writings (Seems he can use some Chinese?)
以下に1975年の日誌の中身を紹介したい。
-ロンドンに移って間もない頃と思われる。
-自筆の略歴や いくつかの旅行の計画など、彼の歴史を知る上で重要な情報も含まれている（この頃、彼はタイや香港を旅行していた可能性がある）。
-哲学的、芸術的思索やシュールな文章が多い。
-すべてを捨て、無の境地に達したというようなコメントがあり、（この時期の他の日記に見られるような）仏教の悟りの境地を示している。
-機械設計のメモもある。
-幾らかの写真コミッションワークのプロポーサルの原稿。
-女性との関係について書かれた官能的な文章がかなりあるが、それが実体験の反映なのか、それとも想像に基づくものなのかはわからない。
-中国語の文章もある（彼は少し中国語が使えるらしい。）
ーSome interesting/thought provoking entries—
–Vision on art
“Going back to the origin of the image in the first place“
“To be able to respond to the question of “then what do you want to say?””
“Finally, out of this awakening I will be able to live in my hallucination. A hallucination can be a hallucination, just as wandering is wandering.”
Journals in 2009-2011 (No.30)
The summary of the contents:
Mainly just short diaries of the day. The typical pattern of his day is to go to Peckham library or use PC from home, checking some emails or writing blogs, going to Lidl or Morrisons, often finding interesting cheap electronic devices on sale to disassemble and play with, or often going out for a party.
He often describes the life at this time is like–
-“I’ve spent a lot of time in a vacuum” which probably means the state of plain life, doing nothing.”
内容の概要：
主に一日に起こった出来事を短く綴っている。彼の一日の典型的なパターンは、ペッカムの図書館に行ったり自宅のパソコンを使ったりしてメールをチェックしたりブログを書いたり、リドルやモリソンズに行って面白い安売りの電子機器を見つけて分解していじったり、もちろん彫刻を作ったり、あるいはパーティーに出かけたりする。
この頃の生活について、彼はしばしばこう綴っている：
「真空の中で多くの時間を過ごした 」ーこれはおそらく、何もしない平凡な生活の状態を意味しているのだろう。
Works: Based on the contents of the diary, the following is a list of works that appear to have been undertaken at this time：
日記の内容から、この頃取り掛かっていた作品等：
-Buddha Statue
-27 Jul 09 – Started to put up some photos in the blog
：ブログについての一文ー -A comment about the blog…
何日か前にy’zen blogに入れた Blanc Spaceという小文は不思議なPostで何か勝手な思いつできて書いてあるようにも見えるのだが（そもそも文章が特に決定的な表現でもないから…）実は全Postの中で最も重要なー文であるのかもしれたいのだ。（と、ここでもへっぴり腰だ）
現実に何の確証があるわけでもないし、調査実験で証明できるわけでもない。
つまり、思いつき以外の何物でも無いのだがそう仮定すると、なぜか全てが収まってしまうように見える。非常にいい加減かつ、あやふやに書いてあるが、実はあれが真実なのでは？（3Oct’10）
The small text titled “Blanc Space” that I put in y’zen blog a few days ago is a strange post, which seems to have been written by some arbitrary idea (since the text is not particularly decisive in the first place,) but in fact it may be the most important one among all the posts. (Here again, I’m being cagey…)
There is no proof in reality, nor can it be proven by research or experimentation.
In other words, it’s nothing more than an idea, but somehow it all seems to click right into place when I assume so. It’s all very loose and vague, but isn’t it actually the truth? (3Oct’10)
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Selections of interesting entries:
On visions on art, what he want to achieve:
Maybe zen monk is the way I go/terminate at..?
Electric experiments are for fun after all, and for art, it is not the sake in itself, but I just want to experiment with the question of where the creativity comes from. So after all what lies under all of those is just to understand the human thoughts.. which I may have started to declare in my Zen Blog.
