バス旅行「秋のかやぶき音楽堂コンサート」２ (Bus Trip, "Autumn Concert at Straw Thatched Music Hall" 2)

　兵庫陶芸美術館での見学後、篠山市の「お菓子の里丹波」の本館で昼食。ここには旧・神戸市警垂水署を移築改装したミオール館その他の施設もあるが、雨が降り出したので、本館から見える庭園の一部の写真を撮ることが出来ただけだった。

　2枚目の写真の手前に写っている「つくばい（蹲踞）」には、「吾唯足知」（われ、ただ足るを知る）の4字が、中央の口を共有した形で刻まれている。これは京都・龍安寺のつくばいにある文字と同じである。

After seeing the exhibition at the Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, we had lunch at the main building of "Okashi-no-sato Tamba (Tamba Sweets Village)"in Sasayama. "Okashi-no-sato Tamba" is a tourist attraction and has Mior House (former Kobe-Tarumi Police Station reconstructed and renovated) and other facilities. However, it became raining, and I was able to take photos of part of the garden seen from the main building.

At the bottom of the second photo, we see a stone basin with four Chinese characters. Each of these characters shares the central bowl representing 口 as its part. The four characters together (吾唯足知) make a poem to mean "what one has is all one needs," which is the basic anti-materialistic teachings of Buddhism [1]. We also see the same poem on the basin of Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto.

1. "Tsukubai," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2 January 2010 at 10:14).

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About Astrophysics

"The post-singularity future of astronomy," Technology Review physics arXiv blog (October 4, 2010). —"Astronomy could be the first discipline in which the rate of discovery by machines outpaces humans' ability to interpret it."

About Mathematics

[Retweet of republicofmath's words] "What is a triangle? The role of definition," Blog site Republic of Mathematics (October 2, 2010).

Wrote a comment on the above blog post: I get 1+α, not 0, for αx+1 with x=1. Am I wrong?

[From republicofmath in reply to my comment] Tatsuo, thanks for your blog comment. I made your correction.

[To republicofmath] You're welcome. The corrected figure for the triangle became less like a triangle in appearance.

About Physicists

"Fred Hoyle: the scientist whose rudeness cost him a Nobel prize," Observer (October 3, 2010). —"As the winners of this year's Nobel science prizes are about to be announced, Robin McKie looks back at the controversial life of groundbreaking scientist Fred Hoyle." (Retweeted by republicofmath)