One can see the direct connection of Metabolist cycles of change with Buddhist reincarnation, prompting the pun that Metabolism should really be called „Metabuddhism“. Kurokawa contrasts it in so many ways with the static notions of the West:

„We have in Japan an aesthetic of death, whereas you have an aesthetic of eternity. The Ise shrines are rebuilt every twenty years in the same form, or spirit; whereas you try to preserve the actual Greek Temple, the original material, as if it could last for eternity“.

(Kisho Kurokawa, METABOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE; Charles Jencks: „Introduction“; 1977, Studio Vista)