KEIKO KOMA net

2 July 2011

Dream of Mt. Gojo

Mugs of Keiko Koma selection items that I produced were printed with an etching pattern created by Mr. Idaki Shin expressing Mt. Gojo, the birthplace of Koguryo. As I watched one I forgot an elapse of time. It made me feel with nostalgia a wind of Mt. Gojo and extremely pure blue sky and floating clouds floating. My soul trembled and my life became extremely vigorous. Mt. Gojo was indeed the homeland vividly residing in my heart while I wished to go back to my authentic home since I was born. I realized that my ancestors have wished to go back to their home and died in vain. Their heart for home was handed on to the future generations and so I was born with the same heart for home and it was not until when I had encountered Mr. Idaki Shin that my deepest wishes started to move and be realized in this actual world by paving a way for a global peace, which was the necessary condition for me to go back to my homeland. Wherever I was I would always express my heart for a global peace. As Mr. Idaki Shin talked about an authentic recovery from the disaster in North Eastern Japan, I became greatly encouraged to rebuild our country as a path for resurrecting everybody’s soul and realizing people’s deepest heart. I was more than happy to be able to do this in my own life and I wished to realize my dream of Mt. Gojo in some future that I wrote in a poem; one would be able to freely visit one’s homeland, get together in Mt. Gojo, live a brilliantly shining life and manifest one’s own nature. This was my ultimate vision of global peace and I would live on with this vision in my mind.