ABSTRACT
In order for the Japanese – rather than Westerners – to provide a new cultural value in the present, it’s critical to push to the extreme thinking through things in a nanba-like manner. That is, in a manner of rice-cropping agriculture in paddies, a thinking style that is available to nobody other than the Japanese. We have to be based on this nanba-like thinking style, or it’s impossible for a contemporary art to emerge, isn’t it? It was Hijikata Tatsumi who did that to a certain extent, you see. And then, rather than Hijikata himself, what’s called ankoku butoh has been appreciated overseas to some degree.
