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List of Best Things to do in Shinjo
Mogami River
Shinjo Furusato History Center
Yumeria
Basho Onboard Place
Shinjo Tourist Association Mogami Information Center
Former Japan Railways Shinjo Station Kikanko
Shinjo Castle Ruins
Mogami Park
Grave of Shinjohan Clan Tozawa Family
Former Residence of Yahagi
Loud Wordless Baseball: Heejun Kim meets the Japanese little league
When Japanese play sports they make meaningless noises, most famously the 'kiai' shout of karate. Various meaningless shouts and calls are used by Japanese sports persons of all types, from tennis to (in this video) little league baseball. Sports persons are taught to throw out their voice (koe wo dasu) in order that they concentrate. Why?
Heejun Kim (2005) has demonstrated that while Westerners perform marginally better at task when they are required to vocalise their thoughts, when East Asians are required to vocalise their thoughts they perform significantly worse because Japanese thoughts are not in language. Conversely, when Westerners are required to make meaningless vocalisations they become significantly worse at a task since it prevents their thoughts, whereas it negatively impacts upon East Asians very little.
It seems clear that making meaningless vocalisations can in fact improve performance among Japanese, such as those playing baseball in this video, since (I argue) these meaningless vocalisations clear the mind of linguistic thought and allows the players to concentrate upon their Japanese-style-thoughts, which I argue are visual.
The throwing out of the voice or destruction of the logos is a common theme in Japanese culture especially Buddhism where people chant the name of the Buddha, count breathes, or simply and directly attempt to silence the mind. I argue that the central ritual act performed at Japanese Shinto Shrines, that of harai literally sweeping away, or purification by waving zigzag strips of pure white paper over people's heads, or getting into bodies of water in the Shinto ritual of water purification (misogi) is also intended to exorcise the mind of the dreaded logos. And in at least one instance, the use of misogi, the wet form of harai, to get rid of words is mentioned in the Book of Ten Thousand Leaves (misogi), where
八代女王(やしろのおほきみ) Yashiro no Ookimi writes
君により、言の繁(しげ)きを、故郷(ふるさと)の、明日香(あすか)の川に、みそぎしに行く
Kimi ni yori, koto no shigeki wo, furusato no, asuka no kawa ni misogi ni iku
What with all the blooming words due to you, I'll go to Asuka River in my hometown to do water-purification.
The poets head was full of rumours (or perhaps worries) regarding her affair with the emperor so she got in a river to get rid of them.
Bibliography
Kim, H. S. (2005). We talk, therefore we think? A cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking. Social Cognition: Key Readings, 63.