# ![@NaokiQYamamoto Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1292516332186087424.png) @NaokiQYamamoto Naoki Yamamoto

Naoki Yamamoto posts on X about japan, art, history, muslim the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  21% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  5% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2% [gaming](/list/gaming)  1% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1% [finance](/list/finance)  1% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[japan](/topic/japan) 10%, [art](/topic/art) 4%, [history](/topic/history) 3%, [muslim](/topic/muslim) 3%, [qatar](/topic/qatar) 3%, [palestine](/topic/palestine) 3%, [london](/topic/london) 3%, [saudi arabia](/topic/saudi-arabia) 3%, [book of](/topic/book-of) 3%, [jujutsu kaisen](/topic/jujutsu-kaisen) 2%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Naoki Yamamoto. "Sin and Forgiveness: Reflections on Fullmetal Alchemist" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/sin-and-forgiveness-reflections-on https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/sin-and-forgiveness-reflections-on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2020933726683754748)  2026-02-09T18:52Z 74K followers, 50.4K engagements


""Subhanallah" Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Din's Sini script Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2021179997382140154)  2026-02-10T11:10Z 74K followers, 16.4K engagements


"Bioshock Infinite seemed to foresee the future. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013718900278493344 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013718900278493344"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2013718900278493344)  2026-01-20T21:02Z 73.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Ayatul Kursi written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2018095923033776410)  2026-02-01T22:55Z 74K followers, 16.7K engagements


"I try not to get drawn into conspiracy theories but when I look at the Epstein files I start to understand why some Western elites seem eager to portray non-Western civilizations such as Islamic African South Asian Japanese and Chinese societies and cultures as if they were morally flawed. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019051732278411628 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019051732278411628"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2019051732278411628)  2026-02-04T14:13Z 74.1K followers, 105.2K engagements


"The best "postcolonial" Gundam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2019101679262810256)  2026-02-04T17:32Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Is Tradition a Curse Reflections on Jujutsu Kaisen" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/is-tradition-a-curse-reflections https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/is-tradition-a-curse-reflections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2019184979746669039)  2026-02-04T23:03Z 74K followers, 43.1K engagements


"Sura al-Fatiha written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2019390110433673536)  2026-02-05T12:38Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Why did some Muslim scholars living in the United States home to perhaps the wealthiest Muslim communities in the world and at the same time one of the societies with the most extreme wealth inequality in modern history choose zakat for this particular purpose And what is the significance of making this position public as a form of "Fatwa" This is only my own conjecture but it seems unlikely that this statement was primarily intended for the Muslim community itself. Rather it appears to have been directed elsewhere. At the same time toward Muslims it may function not so much as a legal ruling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2019710337272946998)  2026-02-06T09:50Z 74K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Is Tradition a Curse Reflections on Jujutsu Kaisen" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/is-tradition-a-curse-reflections https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/is-tradition-a-curse-reflections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021952896884260964)  2026-02-12T14:21Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"There is no doubt that debate has always played a vital role in the development of scholarship. Yet the recent discussions among American Muslim scholars surrounding Zakat strike me differently. Despite more than a century of history and the emergence of diverse communities in that land even in regard to one of the most basic practices of Islam what we are witnessing does not appear to be a constructive or creative intellectual engagement. Rather it seems to expose the absence of a shared moral compass that could ground such debate. And yet precisely because it is clothed in a vocabulary that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022080730151457128)  2026-02-12T22:49Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


""Literacy is a responsibility. It enables one to leave one's word to posterity. A certain level of aptitude and cultivation is required to wield that power. If everyone could write we'd be deluged by worthless words" Orb: On the Movements of the Earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2013526760378204447)  2026-01-20T08:19Z 74K followers, 549.4K engagements


"My essays on Japanese Manga/Anime are available on my Substack https://substack.com/@naokiyamamoto https://substack.com/@naokiyamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2021631266794484075)  2026-02-11T17:03Z 74K followers, 41.7K engagements


"Sometimes no matter how correct it may be or how much I respect the person saying it I get tired of hearing things that sound normative or preachy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022659409206464927)  2026-02-14T13:09Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


""The prophet Muhammad" Sumi-calligraphy style Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2021696255395553513)  2026-02-11T21:22Z 74K followers, 28.6K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Beyond Muslim Fantasies: Japanese Islamicate Art and Our Cultural Imperative" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/beyond-muslim-fantasies-japanese https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/beyond-muslim-fantasies-japanese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2021953657194131799)  2026-02-12T14:24Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "In the Age of Devils What Is a Hero: Reflections on Chainsaw Man" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/in-the-age-of-devils-what-is-a-hero https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/in-the-age-of-devils-what-is-a-hero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022065384418160712)  2026-02-12T21:48Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Alhamdlillah Calligrapher: Naoki Yamamoto Japanese Islamicate Art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022086882704912792)  2026-02-12T23:14Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto. "Sin and Forgiveness: Reflections on Fullmetal Alchemist" https://open.substack.com/pub/naokiyamamoto/p/sin-and-forgiveness-reflections-onutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5ffuas https://open.substack.com/pub/naokiyamamoto/p/sin-and-forgiveness-reflections-onutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5ffuas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022124569856028786)  2026-02-13T01:44Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Iruka Sensei and the Ethics of the Master: What Naruto Really Teaches" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/iruka-sensei-and-the-ethics-of-the https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/iruka-sensei-and-the-ethics-of-the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022204841461002704)  2026-02-13T07:02Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"My Substack website renewed https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/ https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022205390541443295)  2026-02-13T07:05Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


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[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2022762783507460295)  2026-02-14T20:00Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Science and Nature: The Philosophy of Pokmon" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/science-and-nature-the-philosophy https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/science-and-nature-the-philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2023159240689696817)  2026-02-15T22:15Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"al-Rahman Calligrapher: Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2023478918372864237)  2026-02-16T19:25Z 74K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Rootedness Without Purity: Japanese Islamicate Art Beyond "Ethnic" Imagination" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/rootedness-without-purity-japanese https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/rootedness-without-purity-japanese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2023503896547938773)  2026-02-16T21:04Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "When a "Society" Offers No Shelter: Why Islamic Fraternity Matters for Japan Today" https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/when-a-society-offers-no-shelter https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/when-a-society-offers-no-shelter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2023508221076664600)  2026-02-16T21:22Z 74K followers, [----] engagements


": Astagfirullah When read vertically it forms the Chinese character for "" (long life). When read horizontally it spells Astagfirullah in Arabic. The secret to attaining true life lies in turning to Allah with sincere repentance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1942254494051639415)  2025-07-07T16:08Z 69.8K followers, 125.4K engagements


"Ayatul Kursi written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1943265047570190590)  2025-07-10T11:04Z 69.6K followers, 133.3K engagements


": Astagfirullah When read vertically it forms the Chinese character for "" (long life). When read horizontally it spells Astagfirullah in Arabic. The secret to attaining true life lies in turning to Allah with sincere repentance. Calligrapher: Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1946947903899185331)  2025-07-20T14:58Z 69.8K followers, 10K engagements


"Top Three Anime on Decolonization [--]. Code Geass A gripping narrative on resistance imperial rule and the cost of revolution. [--]. Attack on Titan A deconstruction of historical oppression inherited trauma and the cycle of violence. [--]. Turn A Gundam A profound exploration of cultural memory reconciliation and the consequences of colonialism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1951573079056134478)  2025-08-02T09:17Z 69.7K followers, 21.1K engagements


"Saitama calls for temporary halt on visa waiver pact with Turkey The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15934221 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15934221"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1952527161124172253)  2025-08-05T00:28Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements


"One Piece How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ezvj4d111o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ezvj4d111o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1953406770677993697)  2025-08-07T10:44Z 69.8K followers, 149.7K engagements


"Thinking Muslim Podcast interview with Dr. Naoki Yamamoto "A simple yet noble act of Ihsan rooted in the spirit of altruism can sometimes reflect a truth more profound than philosophical debate.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1957415552756105267)  2025-08-18T12:13Z 69.7K followers, 81.8K engagements


": Astagfirullah When read vertically it forms the Chinese character for "" (long life). When read horizontally it spells Astagfirullah in Arabic. The secret to attaining true life lies in turning to Allah with sincere repentance. Calligrapher: Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1970190881753014576)  2025-09-22T18:18Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Dao: Path is the most important concept in understanding East Asian civilization. The Chinese Islamic classics define worshiping Allah as completing Dao. It is a process of understanding divine reality through rectifying ourselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1580654135745339397)  2022-10-13T20:18Z 72.2K followers, [---] engagements


"I was in Qatar last week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1666061353532944390)  2023-06-06T12:35Z 70.4K followers, [----] engagements


""if I must die" Japanese translation of Refaat Alareer's poem written in traditional Japanese calligraphy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1733425242905710645)  2023-12-09T09:55Z 72.6K followers, 2.9M engagements


"Finally I got my sweat. So beautiful. Special sweat with Prof. Refaat's 'If I must die' in traditional Japanese calligraphy fully embroidered. All profits will be donated to support Palestine. https://www.6less.co.uk/products/refaats-scroll https://www.6less.co.uk/products/refaats-scroll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1748321269706064121)  2024-01-19T12:27Z 71.7K followers, 28.4K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Japanese Islamicate Culture" London Rumi's Cave Tuesday April 23rd/19:00"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1782500660795130055)  2024-04-22T20:04Z 72K followers, [----] engagements


"Please support our charity campaign for Palestine 'If I must die' in traditional Japanese calligraphy fully embroidered. Designed by Naoki Yamamoto in honour of professor Refaat Alareer. All profits will be donated to Healing Our Homeland a grassroots movement providing emergency aid in Gaza right now. https://t.co/7HMHesj8X2 https://t.co/rZxAdQTGzj 'If I must die' in traditional Japanese calligraphy fully embroidered. Designed by Naoki Yamamoto in honour of professor Refaat Alareer. All profits will be donated to Healing Our Homeland a grassroots movement providing emergency aid in Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1787624555881587051)  2024-05-06T23:24Z 72.3K followers, 41.8K engagements


"An experiment of creating Japanese Islamicate Calligraphy (Khatt Yabani). Inspired by Khatt Sini. Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1796993772842037440)  2024-06-01T19:54Z 72.4K followers, 26.6K engagements


"Young Muslim Club Japan kindly invited me for organizing a Japanese tea ceremony. https://forms.gle/5mqXTwXkAgFzWv8t6 https://forms.gle/5mqXTwXkAgFzWv8t6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1824768820260802876)  2024-08-17T11:22Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Preparing for the presentation in Qatar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1835630291622211635)  2024-09-16T10:42Z 72.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Presentation in Qatar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1841553440385778156)  2024-10-02T18:58Z 72.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Japanese translation of "Sura al-Asr" written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Handwritten by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1879972525897314639)  2025-01-16T19:22Z 69.6K followers, 19.3K engagements


"It is natural to place emphasis on learning Arabic but I believe we Muslims could study other languages such as Persian Malay/Indonesian Turkish Urdu and Chinese etc. These languages are essential for broadening our understanding and engagement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1883041865941107029)  2025-01-25T06:39Z 69.6K followers, 45.2K engagements


"We often lack knowledge about Islamic traditions from other regions which leads us to reduce even our own Islamic heritage to an exotic ethnic legacy. The solution to this lies in learning the "universality" beautifully expressed in languages different from our native tongues. It is natural to place emphasis on learning Arabic but I believe we Muslims could study other languages such as Persian Malay/Indonesian Turkish Urdu and Chinese etc. These languages are essential for broadening our understanding and engagement. It is natural to place emphasis on learning Arabic but I believe we Muslims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1883044854743310546)  2025-01-25T06:50Z 69.6K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Saudi Arabia Diriya Biennale [----] Tea Ceremony Workshop: Exploring Japanese Islamicate Arts Feb [--] [----] Saturday 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM https://biennale.org.sa/en/program/tea-ceremony-workshop-exploring-japanese-and-islamicate-arts https://biennale.org.sa/en/program/tea-ceremony-workshop-exploring-japanese-and-islamicate-arts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1890630825479217272)  2025-02-15T05:14Z 69.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Thank you for coming to my Tea ceremony workshop at Saudi Biennale 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1890837406816911862)  2025-02-15T18:55Z 62.5K followers, [----] engagements


"I had a truly meaningful time during my lecture and tea ceremony in Saudi Arabia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1891892140415836516)  2025-02-18T16:46Z 72.6K followers, [----] engagements


"My charity campaign for supporting Palestine. Special tote bag with Japanese translation of Prof Refaat's poem "If I must die""  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1943347412887904543)  2025-07-10T16:31Z 72.6K followers, 130.4K engagements


""Subhanallah" When read vertically it forms the Chinese character and when read horizontally it spells "Subhanallah" in Arabic. Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Din's Sini script Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1973088197061009845)  2025-09-30T18:10Z 69.5K followers, 21.9K engagements


"Is there any Muslim organization or institution in Toronto that I should visit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1980016741649412291)  2025-10-19T21:02Z 69.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


""La ilaha illa Allah" Words of Shahada written in ancient Chinese script Quotes from the Chinese Islamic Classic Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1981649510838243670)  2025-10-24T09:10Z 69.6K followers, 11.1K engagements


"The next [--] years will be the real test for us Japanese Muslims. Will we settle for just posting halal food on Instagram shouting dawah into microphones and hiding away in university caves Or will we grow into people grounded in our local communities living a faith that embodies universal values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1982051267854676322)  2025-10-25T11:47Z 69.6K followers, 78.7K engagements


"Ayatul Kursi written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1983190909715108343)  2025-10-28T15:15Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements


"See you in London Naoki Yamamoto "Tea Art and Nothingness: A Talk and Japanese Tea Ceremony" November 21st at Yunus Emre Enstits - London https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tea-art-and-nothingness-a-talk-and-japanese-tea-ceremony-tickets-1859066230139aff=oddtdtcreator https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tea-art-and-nothingness-a-talk-and-japanese-tea-ceremony-tickets-1859066230139aff=oddtdtcreator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1983880249067573318)  2025-10-30T12:54Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements


"My calligraphy piece Mu: Hi a fusion of the Chinese character (Mu) and the Turkish hi (Nothingness) will be presented at the exhibition Hi: In Pursuit of Nothingness at Yunus Emre Institute London. This work explores the shared metaphysical language of East Asia and Islamthe silence beyond words the void that gives birth to form. 📍 Yunus Emre Institute London 🗓 Exhibition: Hi: In Pursuit of Nothingness 4-30 November"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1984670207974260753)  2025-11-01T17:13Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Those who lack cultural capital often fail to grasp the true demands of civilization. I saw a video in which someone confessed that they had spent billions of dollars on Islamic missionary activities in Japan only to fail. If they had that much money I wish they had used those resources instead to protect Japans traditional culture crafts and beautiful nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1984671796998599165)  2025-11-01T17:20Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Subhanallah" Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Din's Sini script Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1985429296962302026)  2025-11-03T19:30Z 71.7K followers, 47.5K engagements


"We need a new Ahlk- Al for this century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1986404136305270816)  2025-11-06T12:03Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements


"In an article featuring my Japanese Islamicate Art a right-wing Japanese man commented This is how this immigrant Muslim is contaminating our culture. My ancestors may indeed have been immigrants but that was thousands of years ago. Perhaps I should be grateful to have been born in an age of rising right-wing sentiment since it allowed me to realize that there are people who see immigration from such a long historical perspective"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1986422706166796634)  2025-11-06T13:17Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"With the democratization of AI-generated video technology I feel that Islamophobia has entered a new dimension. Now more than ever we need offline civic engagement a deep understanding of local cultures and traditions and the courage to remain uncompromising in the face of prevailing political winds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1987810316323889618)  2025-11-10T09:11Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Ayatul Kursi written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1987966727851045018)  2025-11-10T19:32Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Subhanallah" Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Din's Sini script Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1988205397065560445)  2025-11-11T11:21Z 71.7K followers, 21.5K engagements


"Ayatul Kursi written in traditional Japanese calligraphy Interested in owning a unique piece of Japanese Islamicate calligraphy Contact futuwwa.art@gmail.com to place an order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1988494856738525230)  2025-11-12T06:31Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Muslims and the Path of Intellectual Slavery: An Interview with Wael Hallaq https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30782 https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30782"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1988577256785220082)  2025-11-12T11:58Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Mamdani argues that the nationalist violence of modernity is not a criminal deviations from the norm. Instead it is an expected part of a political system built on brutality and genocide." https://politicaltheology.com/between-the-decolonial-and-the-postcolonial-an-interview-with-mahmood-mamdani/ https://politicaltheology.com/between-the-decolonial-and-the-postcolonial-an-interview-with-mahmood-mamdani/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1989415498409496633)  2025-11-14T19:29Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This is an AI-generated Youtube video of fictional Japanese Muslim. At this stage the visual quality is quite rough. But it is worth asking ourselves a serious question are we Muslims YouTubers influencers scholars and professors truly producing arguments of higher quality than theirs Unless we raise the level of our own discourse AI will inevitably take over our voice our thinking and eventually the entire space in which our intellectual life exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1990111625420878109)  2025-11-16T17:36Z 71.6K followers, 33.5K engagements


"The researchers suggest that many Japanese respondents felt it was "socially desirable" to appear strict toward foreigners leading them to give exclusionary answers even if those answers did not reflect their true feelings. A recent study examined how people respond to questions about xenophobia under two conditions: when their answers are visible to others and when they remain anonymous. Surprisingly Japanese respondents expressed more exclusionary attitudes when their answers were public. This pattern is the opposite of what similar studies in Western countries have found."  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1990121893496500346)  2025-11-16T18:16Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


""The Five Pillars of Islam are the practice by which one completes the Way; they are the means through which Heaven and humanity attain harmony." Han-Kitab quotation in ancient Chinese letters. Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1990346962382491785)  2025-11-17T09:11Z 71.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It is a profoundly grotesque sight that Japans so-called Muslim-friendly influencers continue promoting halal-related business to audiences overseas while completely ignoring the growing hate speech and harassment faced by Muslims in Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1992897274746220740)  2025-11-24T10:05Z 72K followers, 23.4K engagements


"Many Japanese Muslims especially converts go abroad to study True Islam and when they return to Japan they often begin to act as though they must teach it to the supposedly uninformed Japanese public. And because most Japanese have little knowledge of Islam they tend to regard these returnees as authoritative voices on the religion. What we often overlook is that the societies in which we study have their own layered and deeply rooted historical contexts contexts that cannot be grasped from the outside. As foreign students we live there as temporary guests moving through the margins of a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1994817661658714485)  2025-11-29T17:16Z 71.9K followers, 138.9K engagements


"Recent surveys on Japanese attitudes toward foreigners reveal a striking pattern: even when individuals do not hold clear or firm views of their own many report sensing that society is leaning toward an anti-foreigners mood and they tend to align themselves with that perceived atmosphere. This suggests that people are responding less to their own convictions than to an imagined consensus surrounding them. Such behavior is entirely consistent with what Shichihei Yamamoto described as the governing force of Japanese society: the air (kki) that prescribes what is thinkable and unthinkable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1995592852265382388)  2025-12-01T20:36Z 71.9K followers, 21.9K engagements


"Tanaka Ippei (18821934) was one of the earliest Japanese Muslims. He published a biography of the Prophet Muhammad translating it from a Chinese work by the Hui Muslim scholar Liu Zhi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1995963081089016169)  2025-12-02T21:07Z 71.9K followers, 110.2K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Islamicate Reading of Japanese Swordsmanship Introduction" Ive just published the opening piece of my new series where I read Miyamoto Musashis The Book of Five Rings through an Islamicate lens of inner discipline restraint and moral clarity. Read it here: If youd like to support the project you can do so here: https://buymeacoffee.com/qayyimnaoki https://substack.com/home/post/p-180537974 https://buymeacoffee.com/qayyimnaoki https://substack.com/home/post/p-180537974"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1996195841393005009)  2025-12-03T12:32Z 71.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Reflections on Naruto and Other Godless Heroes: A Note of Gratitude and a Call for Renewed Imagination This is my personal reflection on Naruto and Other Godless Heroes: Can Manga Bear the Weight of Islam an insightful piece by Hibatuallah Bensaid published recently at Traversing Tradition. I am genuinely honored to receive such a thoughtful and sincere reflection for it signals a much-needed revival of "Islamicate" fictionstories shaped by our own moral spiritual and aesthetic imagination. I often recognize in her reflections the very sensations I have had myself when watching Japanese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1996244342273437947)  2025-12-03T15:45Z 72K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Aysha Akane: Ninja of the Futuwwa Guild Illustration by Naoki Yamamoto Read Futuwwa-Ninja Stories here: Support the project here: https://buymeacoffee.com/qayyimnaoki https://substack.com/@futuwwaninja https://buymeacoffee.com/qayyimnaoki https://substack.com/@futuwwaninja"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1996262742140100833)  2025-12-03T16:58Z 72K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto. "Japanese Manga: The Cutting Edge of Traditional Creativity." Japanese shnen manga as a medium offers not the loving power of empire but role models for humanity to aspire to. In short it is the only remaining genre of bildungsroman the novel of formation left in the world. Neither identity politics can be found in it nor the history of conquest and victory as nation-states and governments would like it to be. Rather manga tries to teach young people that human society can be infinitely complex. In todays society where various ideas are polarized the attitude to be gained is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1996320469729886604)  2025-12-03T20:47Z 71.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Islamicate Reading of Japanese Swordsmanship-1: Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings" Substack: What can we learn when Miyamoto Musashis The Book of Five Ringsthe most iconic work of Japanese swordsmanship is read through an Islamicate lens of inner discipline and spiritual refinement A new way of seeing the Way of the Sword. https://open.substack.com/pub/naokiyamamoto/p/islamicate-reading-of-japanese-swordsmanship-829r=5ffuas&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1997084342057566380)  2025-12-05T23:23Z 72K followers, [----] engagements


"For people my age I think a lot of us got into Katana/Sword stuff because of Auron from FFX. At least I did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1997095969473892416)  2025-12-06T00:09Z 71.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The Missing Saints of Japanese Islam: On the Intellectual Vacuum We Can No Longer Ignore I come from a region in Japan known for the Four Saints of Okayama: Ishii Jji Tomioka Ksuke Yamamuro Gunpei and Alice Petty Adams. These figures were pioneers of Japans modern social-welfare infrastructure. Guided by Christian ethics they studied what was then cutting-edge Western knowledgesociology social work the emerging sciences of modernityand transformed it into concrete institutions that reshaped Japanese society. Catholicism in Japan can trace its roots back to the Warring States period but"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1997121871045664912)  2025-12-06T01:52Z 72.2K followers, 12.3K engagements


"Twilight Samurai and Futuwwa Among all samurai films ever made the one that has remained closest to my heart is The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei). The film depicts the life of a low-ranking samurai who has lost his wife to illness. He lives in poverty while caring for his aging mother and raising two young daughters alone. Because of these responsibilities he avoids social gatherings abandons leisure and endures hardship with quiet dignity. His clothes are worn and patched and for this he is mocked by his peers. To them he appears insignificant even laughable. And yet beneath this modest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1997785746883654089)  2025-12-07T21:50Z 71.9K followers, [----] engagements


"New Episode Naoki Yamamoto "Islamicate Reading of Japanese Swordsmanship-2: Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings" What can we learn when The Book of Five Rings is read through an Islamicate lens of inner discipline and spiritual refinement https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/islamicate-reading-of-japanese-swordsmanship-88e https://naokiyamamoto.substack.com/p/islamicate-reading-of-japanese-swordsmanship-88e"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1998142174962037023)  2025-12-08T21:26Z 72.2K followers, [----] engagements


"See you in Toronto Join us for A Spiritual Journey Between Japan and Trkiye with Dr. Naoki Yamamotoan evening of talk on Japanese Islamicate Art and Japanese tea ceremony. 📅 Dec [--] [----] 7:00 PM 📍 Yunus Emre Institute [--] Berkeley St. Suite [---] Toronto Admission is free register via the link. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/talk-japanese-tea-ceremony-calligraphy-with-naoki-yamamoto-tickets-1975830137128utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1999396232410583485)  2025-12-12T08:29Z 72K followers, [----] engagements


"Tanaka Ippei (18821934) was one of the earliest Japanese Muslims. He published a biography of the Prophet Muhammad translating it from a Chinese work by the Hui Muslim scholar Liu Zhi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2000158361309102393)  2025-12-14T10:58Z 72.2K followers, 46.1K engagements


""Today that test has returned in a new form. As Dr. Wael Hallaq argues much of modern Muslim intellectual life has been shaped by a nave mimicry of Western categories adopting conceptual frameworks alien to the metaphysical and moral grammar of Islam.1The problem he suggests is not contact with the West but epistemic and intellectual dependency i.e. the uncritical assumption that our own tradition must justify itself in foreign terms. I believe its remedy is twofold: internal repair a disciplined return to our theological and ethical sources; and lateral expansion the cultivation of dialogues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2000295063058821253)  2025-12-14T20:01Z 72.2K followers, [----] engagements


""Subhanallah" Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Din's Sini script Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2000963935139434627)  2025-12-16T16:19Z 72.1K followers, 145.8K engagements


"Naoki Yamamoto "Why I Became a Muslim" https://open.substack.com/pub/naokiyamamoto/p/why-i-became-a-muslimr=5ffuas&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/naokiyamamoto/p/why-i-became-a-muslimr=5ffuas&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2002483546116567043)  2025-12-20T20:57Z 72.3K followers, 16.1K engagements


"The political currents emerging in Japan today ultimately confront us with a century-long unresolved question: how we are to orient and redefine Japans vision as a modern nation-state since the Meiji Restoration. For a society like ours which has rarely engaged in sustained reflection on decolonization or intellectual independence this process is bound to be deeply painful. Simply denouncing xenophobia racism or populism or tracing only their surface manifestations by labeling and describing the behaviors of individual Japanese through such categories will not suffice to decipher contemporary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2002831010820460869)  2025-12-21T19:58Z 72.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The tea ceremony demonstration in Riyadh Saudi Arabia was a great success"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2005040417201660187)  2025-12-27T22:17Z 72.6K followers, 31.5K engagements


"@ShoheiHaraguchi Thank you and sorry I will correct it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2013745133724790951)  2026-01-20T22:47Z 72.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@ShoheiHaraguchi I have revised the Substack post. Thank you very much for your correction and I sincerely apologize for my mistake. https://substack.com/@naokiyamamoto/note/c-201923284r=5ffuas https://substack.com/@naokiyamamoto/note/c-201923284r=5ffuas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2013752692531736657)  2026-01-20T23:17Z 72.8K followers, [---] engagements


""Perfection is a dead end. It leaves no room for innovation or improvement or for wisdom or talent." Bleach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2014042895087538528)  2026-01-21T18:30Z 72.7K followers, [----] engagements


"As anti-Muslim hate speech has increasingly spread across Japanese online spaces I have begun translating and sharing more intellectual insights and academic studies on Islam and Muslim societies in Japanese. Your du would mean a great deal to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/1988280813872705863)  2025-11-11T16:21Z 73.5K followers, 574.6K engagements


""Sometimes intellectual arguments do not compensate for thoughtful actions with ihsan" Watch Dr Naoki Yamamoto discuss Islam in Japan Thinking Muslim Podcast: https://youtu.be/zbOe1pDdHkAsi=QJzyGuS4V4KTfZR3 https://youtu.be/zbOe1pDdHkAsi=QJzyGuS4V4KTfZR3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2012126710167486812)  2026-01-16T11:36Z 73.4K followers, 15.7K engagements


"A Palestinian Childs Poem Introduced in a Japanese School Entrance Examination One of Japans most competitive and prestigious schools Nada Junior High School which has long produced many of the countrys leading intellectual and social elites recently featured the poem "Write My Name on My Leg Mama" by the Palestinian child poet Zeina Azzam in its Japanese language entrance examination. Once a text is used in the entrance examination of Nada Junior High School it does not fade away after a single year. It becomes part of the schools accumulated past examinations read and studied by generations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2013226495888523441)  2026-01-19T12:26Z 73.5K followers, 67.7K engagements


"@M_Sami_Mercimek Okakura Kakuzo The Book of Tea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NaokiQYamamoto/status/2017570996115407218)  2026-01-31T12:09Z 73.4K followers, [--] engagements


""al-Fatiha" Sura al-Fatiha written with traditional Japanese calligraphy. Designed by Naoki Yamamoto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1732327796297314735)  2023-12-06T09:15Z 74K followers, 2.3M engagements

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