A pattern language from the Japanese culture for the good old future

Christopher Alexander was keenly aware that in today's world we can no longer generate that 'quality' which we experience as 'comfortable.' He captured the quality of "comfortable" by capturing a principle that occurs in architecture which is cultivated over a long period with a Pattern Language. We figure that his idea of capturing qualities through pattern languages will become useful in modern day Japan. After the loss in WW II, Japan's social structure was made by copying the ways of Western society, resulting in the clash between the old style comfortable Japanese culture and Western imported policies. When we feel comfortableness in something, it can be said that we are also feeling the quality of "good old" from it, even if we do not have an actual memory of it. It is this feeling of the quality of "good old" rooted deeply in our culture that brings comfortableness. In this paper we propose the Pattern Language for good old future from Japanese Culture. This is a pattern language meant to capture the repeating principles that occur in the Japanese culture that gives us the feeling of this quality of "good old". By utilizing this pattern language, people of Japan can re-create the quality of "good old" in future buildings and towns - a "good old future". With the patterns they can think and decide what really best fits them, creating comfortable environments without running counter to the advancement in technologies. The paper will present 3 of all 15 patterns, No.1 REVERSE VOID AND FULL, No.2 INNERMOST AND EXTRAORDINARY, and No.5 MICROCOSMOS REPRODUCTION in detail, along with a summary of the rest of the patterns recorded in the appendix. We envision that, with this method, qualities for a "good old future" can be captured for any culture. Japan developed trying to catch up with other countries. The "good old future" which will be realized by these patterns is a brand new vision in how to guide Japan. We suppose "good old future" is one possibility in Japanese society's new vision of itself. We hope it will support Japanese people in thinking about their own future by themselves.