This science essay by Nobel laureate Shinichiro Tomonaga follows the historical formation of physics as a way of thinking. Moving from Kepler, Galileo, and Newton to thermodynamics and kinetic theory, it traces how ways of seeing nature emerged and changed, with the perspective of a working physicist felt throughout.

Physics is presented not as a collection of formulas, but as a human effort to question nature and think it through.

A literary history that rereads Japanese literature from antiquity to the postwar period, treating not only poetry and fiction but also thought, religion, historical writing, and popular voices. Centering on responses to outside ideas and changes in indigenous worldviews, it presents a broad intellectual history of Japanese culture.

A major work that broadens the idea of literature and follows the movement of Japanese intellectual life from ancient times to the modern era.