KEIKO KOMA net

22 Oct. 2011

Autumn

As I wrote in one of the poems entitled “father” of the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert, at the age of nineteen, I made up my mind all of a sudden to go to Kyoto in the midst of agony. As soon as I was about to leave my home I came across my father at its gate that was filled with the sweet fragrance of aurantiacus flowers. I told him simply that I would go to Kyoto without giving any reason and he replied with a smiling face that by the time I would be back home, these aurantiacus flower would have already fallen down. This memory was revived when my father had passed away and I created the poem. Later, I discovered the same passages with precisely this description in my diary so my memory was correct. Mr. Idaki Shin commented that my father indeed had a lot of taste. The sweet fragrance of aurantiacus in autumn always made me think about my father. At the gate of my house, there stood one aurantiacus tree that I had asked for when somebody had proposed to present me a tree. I immediately said the name of this tree. Now it was in bloom and generating a beautiful fragrance. Like I was nineteen years old in the midst of a mental abyss, I was about to leave for Kyoto, however, this time I was filled with hope for opening up a marvelous era together with the soul of my father and souls of people who knew how to build a country.