Kototoi Vol.7

[Machine Translation] This is the plain-bound edition of the seventh issue of "kototoi", a series of books for "bringing poetry back into everyday life". kototoi" ( ) was first published after 3.11 with the idea of creating a deeper everyday life. The theme of this issue is "Reconsidering (Publicness). Following the sixth issue, we invited Ken Terawaki, a film critic and former bureaucrat of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, to talk about the future of home education and other forms of learning, as well as about the image and way of life in the post-modern age. In the interview at the end of the book, "The Future We Want to Create," we invite sociologist Tetsushi Yamamoto and historian Junichi Takahashi to discuss the important issue of how to oppose the state and society that "tries to impose norms on people using laws as a shield while changing laws at will," as seen in the recent debate on the right of collective self-defense. It also touches on the important issue of how to resist the state and society that "tries to impose norms on people using the law as a shield, while changing the law to suit itself. It is quite a unique (public) discussion. I think it touches on important viewpoints and issues that are probably not covered in any other magazine, so I hope you will take a look at it. In addition, a cartoon appears in "kototoi" from this issue. Kotoha Fujino, who has been writing a series of articles for "Bessatsu Friend", will start a new series of "Tsukumogochita", a manga that is unique to "kototoi". The main characters are the things in the house, and the manga has a warm feeling. In addition, there will be a letter back and forth by Taro Gomi, poems and music scores by musician Naoryu, poems and photos by Tomoji Nojima, a nature essayist who grew up in home education, an essay on urban agriculture by Kota Oguchi, a novel by Nagai Kejo, an essay by Makiko Ui, an essay on the Ainu people by Makiko Katsuragi, and a series of articles on the Japanese culture, "Tsukumogochita. Makiko Ui's essay on Ainu, and Makoto Katsumata and Masaru Kosaka's essays on degrowth and downshifting. Please order the Japanese-bound edition directly from the publisher.

「日常に"詩"をとり戻す」ためのシリーズ本「kototoi」第七号のふつう製本版です。 3.11以後、深めていく日常をつくるために、という思いから創刊された「kototoi」(言問い)。今号のテーマは、"〈公共性〉を問い直す"。第六号にひきつづき、映画評論家で、元文科省官僚の寺脇研さんをお招きし、ホームエデュケーションなどのこれからの時代の学びのあり方について伺うとともに、ポスト近代の時代のイメージや生き方についても伺っている貴重な内容になっております。また、巻末インタビュー「つくり出す未来」では、社会学者の山本哲士さん、思想史家の高橋順一さんをお招きし、昨今の集団的自衛権の議論にも見られるような、「法律を自分勝手に変えながら、法律を盾に人びとに規範を課そうとする」国家や社会にどう対抗するか、という大切な問題にも触れています。かなりユニークな〈公共性〉の議論になっております。おそらく、他のどの雑誌も取り上げていない大事な視点・論点に触れていると思いますので、是非、ご覧になっていただきたいと思います。さらに、今号からは「kototoi」にマンガが登場。『別冊フレンド』で連載されていた藤野こと葉さんが、「kototoi」らしいマンガ「つくもごちた」の連載をはじめます。家のなかの物たちが主人公の、温かみのあるマンガです。ほかにも、五味太郎さんの往復書簡、ミュージシャン・ナオリュウさんの詩と楽譜、ホームエデュケーションで育ち、ネイチャーエッセイストとして活躍する野島智司さんの詩と写真、小口広太さんの都市農業についてのエッセイ、連載陣・ナガイケジョーさんの小説、宇井眞紀子さんのアイヌについてのエッセイ、勝俣誠さんと高坂勝さんの脱成長・ダウンシフトエッセイも充実です。和綴じ製本版は、直接出版社へご注文ください。