Today at Tokyo Koma-ya, before the event, I set up a shop front and sold items as life guided me. It was a brief time, yet there were encounters—Chinese visitors, a person living in Paris, someone working at a coffee shop in Japan. Everyone was delighted by how wonderful the coffee tasted, and they purchased many bags of beans as well. They also showed interest in concerts by Master Idaki Shin, and for those from overseas, we shared information about the live stream. It was less than an hour in all, yet stepping outside, I feel deep joy to meet people I have never been able to encounter before. Then came the screening event—a showing of "Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered," which we performed on my birthday, May 13th. Enveloped in the music, it was one hour and forty-five minutes spent in another dimension, a separate world entirely. It was simply and purely comfortable, and I felt life that lives at the very heart of history's grand romance—it also became an experience realizing how contracted and small our living in this world has become. I sense once again that human life is meant to be lived within the vast universe. I have renewed my resolve to live within this society without losing the life that dwells in the great cosmos. Today as well, I brewed Koma-ya Special Coffee, and we composed and shared poems with one another. When all persons express in poetry the truth of the souls they carry within their lives, I see a vision of countless souls linking together, souls gathering as one. When I feel that it’s a process by which each person's life—lived in the grand romance of history—is woven into verse, I can see that, flowing along the great river, this current will continue eternally without end, growing brighter, walking a path that goes on forever. I am grateful to be living a life overflowing with romance. Even as the world faces a time of crisis, the moments at Koma-ya are joyful and filled with happiness. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have the experience of living with a heart that is rich and full as a human being. Tomorrow the gathering at Koma-ya continues. I look forward to it very much. When we part, smiling and saying "see you soon" to one another, I am deeply grateful from the heart that each of us will go on living and working within one’s own environment, gathering again at Koma-ya, expressing the depths of our hearts in poetry, and living lives of fullness. Thank you very much.