"A Figure of the Great Field and the Cycles and Objects within It"

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The upper half of this figure shows two fields that are ubiquitous throughout the entire universe. One is space, and the other is time. The upper word "大物" means "great object," and the lower word "小物" means "small object." As a term in Baien's thought, "great object" indicates the cosmic scale, while "small object" indicates the global scale, where organisms on the earth exist. Baien thought that the space-field, drawn in the second quadrant, diffuses material things as far as the celestial sphere, and that the time-field, drawn in the first quadrant, changes all objects throughout the universe. By this reasoning, he placed the two areas, time and space, in non-material domains within the material domain. His logical and systematic thinking is innovative and astonishing. An explanation of the five characters written in the small circle of the first quadrant: the central character "時" → time the upper-left character "宙" → a time-field with no starting point and no end the lower-right character "路" → paths of change the upper character "端" → the infinite extension of time from the past to the future the lower-left character "今" → the present The second quadrant: the central ring "處" → space; field the lower-right character "宇" → a cosmic-scale space-field the lower-left character "宅" → a place where something can exist the upper-left character "外" → outer space; space spreading into infinity the lower-right character "中" → a point without an interior; area; category The third quadrant: the central ring "物" → material; substance; body; matter the upper-left character "地" → the globe; earth; ground the lower-right character "天" → sky; air; space the upper-right character "小" → surface and aquatic animals and plants, minerals, and topsoil the lower-left character "大" → heavenly bodies; celestial bodies; the celestial sphere The fourth quadrant: the central ring "期" → a cycle the upper-right character "比" → the cycle of alternation of generations among organisms the lower-left character "環" → the cycle of the rotational motion of celestial bodies the upper-left character "短" → a short cycle the lower-right character "長" → a long cycle, such as celestial rotation Description of the relationship with each quadrant: The fourth quadrant is the domain that shows concrete temporal phenomena of material existence. Therefore, these temporal phenomena are realized in the field of the upper first quadrant. The second quadrant is the domain that depicts the space in which all material beings exist. Therefore, all material beings can exist within the space-field. The first quadrant shows the area in which the cycles drawn in the fourth quadrant can exist. The second quadrant shows the area in which the materials drawn in the third quadrant can exist. They are located in the two lower quadrants. Hmm, that's nice!

In Gengo, the same word is often used with completely different meanings. In particular, when a word belongs to different files, the same character may have an entirely different meaning. This is mainly due to a lack of character resources, not to Baien's misuse of words. Writing Gengo was a series of efforts to describe a world that no one had ever seen. When he began writing his ideas, he had only the traditional vocabulary and grammar of the empirical world. These were the only two tools he could use when he began his work. But they lacked the resources needed to explain his concept. Therefore, he devised more than 150 diagrams. Surprisingly, these were the world's first Windows system. Baien struggled to describe a world no one had ever seen by using only these three tools. And he wrote: I read many books, but they were all in vain. However, because Baien developed a precise file structure for organizing Gengo in his later life, the reading of its vocabulary has improved dramatically, at least from the viewpoint of computer analysis.

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