Influences

Stage

• Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night

• William Shakespeare's Hamlet

• David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross

• Del Close's Impovisational Teachings
  

Screen

• Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours Trilogy

• Otmar Guttmann's Pingu

• Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Nostalgia

• Auguste and Louis Lumière's Films

• Christopher Nolan's Inception

• Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away
  

Music

• Chet Baker

• Johan Johannson’s Fordlandia

• Portishead

• Sigur Ros
  

Science

• Giordano Bruno

• Dr. Rollo May

• Dr. Albert Ellis

• Dr. Jacqueline Mattis

• 森田 正馬 (Dr. Shoma Morira)
  

Poetry

• Sharon Olds

• Carl Dennis

• Stephen Dunn

• Natasha Tretheway

• Anna Akhmatova

• Ted Kooser

• Mark Strand

• Matthew Buckley Smith

• Ryan Wilson
  

Fiction

• Ron Rash

• George Saunders

• Jon Stewart

• Flannery O'Connor

• 小池 一夫 (Kazuo Koike, Writer of Lone Wolf & Cub)
  

Design Non-Fiction

• Christopher Alexander

• David & Mary Sherwin

• Brenda Laurel

• Katrine Rau

• Nathan Shedroff

• Buckminster Fuller
  

Art

• Andreas Gursky

• 小島 剛夕 (Goseki Kojima, Illustrator of Lone Wolf & Cub)

• Olafur Eliasson

• Stanley Donwood

• Edvard Munch
  

Philosophy

• Socrates

• Bodhidharma

• Walter Benjamin

• Martin Buber
  

Video Gaming

• Goichi Suda's Killer7

• Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Series

• Katsuya Eguchi's Star Fox

• UsTwo Games's Monument Valley

Fictional Characters

• Charles Xavier (from the Marvel Comics universe)

• Ogami Ittō (from Lone Wolf and Cub)

• Rorschach (from Watchmen)

• 座頭市 (Titular character from Zatoichi)

• The Man in the Black Coat from Robert Bly’s Poem Snowbanks North of the House