Letting you know I'm publishing my book in Japanese.
This is a letter I wrote to the younger Japanese generation to read.
I think they are the only hope for the future of Japan.
日本の若いひとびとに宛てた手紙を書きました。
Helen hatching from the egg. Limestone. From the "Tomba dell'uovo di Elena" near Metaponto, dated to the late 5th c. BCE. Together w other artifacts from tomb, this has been related to Pythagorean/Orphic beliefs. Museo archeologico nazionale di Metaponto
Detail from King Tutankhamun’s gilded canopic shrine. The goddess Selket, one of four goddesses with arms outstretched, spreads protection over the shrine. Gilded wood, exquisitely crafted about 3,350 years ago. Dynasty 18, New Kingdom. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Roman votive viscera made in terracotta and dedicated at healing shrines, likely by individuals with unidentified digestive and abdominal complaints.
(Getty, Wellcome and Science Museum collections)