#48 June 8, 2022

I travelled overseas for the first time in two and a half years. After visiting architecture designed by Junzo Yoshimura in New York that is surrounded by greenery, I flew to San Francisco, spent three days in Japan, and then went to five countries in Europe. This tight travel schedule was the result of consultation and site visit requests.

The two and a half years of the Coronavirus pandemic created a new lifestyle rhythm tailored to the limited territorial constrains of Japan. This provided me with the opportunity to experience a number of new locations ranging from Hokkaido to Okinawa where you can directly feel and touch the wonder of nature, as well as a chance to reexamine myself. I made a conscious effort even in Tokyo to take walks, and feel that I was able to transform myself somewhat into an awareness that resembles a hunter-gatherer mentality.

I was slightly concerned how my transformation into a bit of a wild person that had returned to a lifestyle resembling a hunter-gatherer would cope with taking airline flights. I think that the decision to take a lot of walks in the local area helped restore my body’s balance. In addition to walking briskly to work up a sweat in wild areas that resembled wilderness, I took walks as much as possible in the cities I visited. For some reason, I am often given sites that are in the “wild”. I intuitively feel that the Coronavirus pandemic has made people all around the world to want to get out into nature. I decided to think about things while walking rather than just stay at home. Taking brisk walks may enable us to skillfully combine the hunter-gatherer sensibilities nurtured during the pandemic with the airplane that gives people bird-like abilities.