In 2017, a specific place was designated as a national park under a groundbreaking premise: recognizing human presence and culture as an integral part of nature's vital activity. There is only one such place in the world.

It is Amami.

Then, in 2021, its profound value was internationally recognized, meeting the rigorous criteria to become a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. What was once prone to being dismissed as a fading local culture has now seen a dramatic reversal in value—emerging as a cutting-edge treasure trove of wisdom for how humanity and the Earth can survive and thrive together.

The ideology that has driven modernized humanity could be described as the path of mizukara (artificiality or human agency), placing humans at the very center of the universe and attempting to control both others and the natural world.

However, the isolation of the "individual" detached from others and divorced from nature, the divisions caused by ever-expanding desires, and the environmental crises brought about by our attempts to dominate nature have now reached an undeniable limit—both spiritually and planetarily.

We now live in an era called the "Anthropocene," where the age of human-centrism is becoming a thing of the past. Yet, humanity still cannot seem to break free from the cycles of division and conflict.

The most powerful cultural prescription for this gridlocked modern world is the bodily sensation of onozukara (spontaneous, effortless nature).

Overcoming the divisions between humans and our isolation from nature, we want to reawaken a profound bodily sense of solidarity—the realization that each of us is merely a single drop temporarily separated from the great whole, and that at the very root of the Earth, we are all deeply interconnected.

Japanese culture was originally rooted in a people who excelled in this very philosophy and way of life. Yet today, even in Japan, this vital sensibility has begun to fade.

By harnessing the power of sound from the Amami Islands—a true embodiment of our nation's culture where humanity and nature exist as one—and alongside the Tenchi-Jinrai (the celestial, terrestrial, and human resonances of Japan), we seek to transcend the limits of human-centrism.

We wish to redefine the true meaning of the Self, Freedom, World Peace, and Cosmic Harmony within the great, eternal embrace of nature.