MORITA KEIICHI'S ENCOUNTER WITH EUPALINOS

It is in 1932 that Morita mentioned Valéry's ‘Eupalinos’ for the first time. How did he encountered Valéry. I guessed that there were some chances of the encounter in Le Corbusier's text, lectures at the Institute of France-Japan, and lectures and texts of philosophers in Kyoto University. Then published books, preserved documents were examined. Consequently it was revealed that Morita learned the outline of Valéry's works through the lecture in the Institute of France-Japan, and was leaded to ‘Eupalinos’ by Kuki Syuzo. Morita's understanding of Valéry's thoughts however was based on Platonism learned through Fukada Yasukazu.