村上隆さんのインスタグラム写真 - (村上隆Instagram)「No.6 The scenery Mahito sees upon arriving at Böcklin's “Island of the Death” depicts a fleet of terribly simplified and seemingly poorly drawn sailing vessels. Many people have said in their post-viewing comments that it was a metaphor for the journey to death, similar to the group of planes carrying the war dead in "Porco Rosso", and how Miyazaki’s drawing skill has diminished, but I thought it wasn't just that. In the scene where Mahito is having dinner with Kiriko, too, there are Western sailing ships moving across the sea outside the window, as if to show off. And when Kiriko and Mahito catch a fish and take it to a certain market, the sailboats waiting for them at the market are shaped in what could be described as an Asian style, a completely different design from the Western-style sailing vessels visible in the distance. On board these sailboats at the market are shadowy, skinny ghosts wearing Asian-looking hats. In other words, the seemingly poorly-designed Western-style sailing ships are a symbolic picture of the Age of Discovery, when Western powers colonized unexplored countries around the world in order to spread their own culture and religion, and to gain profit. In Asia, it could be a metaphor for the bloody history leading up to the Opium War (the characters wearing insubstantial hats could be opium addicts?) ), and so on. However, from Hayao-san's point of view, I imagined that perhaps he may also be expressing a tacit acceptance of our reality, which evolved as a result of our encounter with the Western-style culture that we do, in the end, enjoy. I also thought that the sailing vessels were poorly drawn on purpose because he did not want to be too realistic as to evoke specific countries. 5) Are the Walla Wallas the young Japanese men who went off to war? ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ Kiriko comments about fish being nourishing when sharing the mysterious fish with the ghosts with Asian-looking hats. And when the Walla Wallas fly away, they are eaten by the pelicans, but Kiriko is glad she at least got to feed them as much as they could eat...and so on. I wondered if that was a metaphor for the young men who went off to war.」9月11日 6時48分