21th Jan 2013

Mt. Iwate

After some absence I was glad to be able to see Mt. Iwate on my way back to Tokyo from Morioka. Though it was in January I already felt a spring breeze that made me recall my art work ”Water and flower of peach” that was associated with the sound of melting snow, while it would get colder and colder from now on. This seemed to teach us that Great Being was infinitely exercising its influences on us under any severe situations. I nodded yes and accepted this message. My heart was nursed by gentle life in nature.
At the moment of creation of my poem, a light-scape came into my mind. And in Morioka the theme of the Idaki Shin concert was a Galactic train. This was a very poetic theme and made me recall that when I had visited Morioka to promote a charity concert for the Hanshin great earthquake disaster, a journalist of a newspaper asked if Mr. Idaki Shin was capable of expressing on the piano the sound of petals falling from a flower. This poetic question had greatly impressed me as it was asked in the cherry blossom season. So for me Morioka was a land with the aroma of a poem. So his concert held the other day with a special theme demonstrated the poetic nature of Morioka and made me appreciate a special feeling of travelling around the universe. Mt. Iwate, that I watched today, showed me that life in nature was together with us, and experienced the concert. When our heart became rich at heart and became brilliantly shining, life in nature would also shine beautifully. I wished to live a beautiful life every day.