22th Apr. 2014

 

Wind of Koguryo

 

I used to go to the Yasaka tower as I loved to face the tower and meet souls of my ancestors. To my gratitude the tower was standing right there whenever I went out from the back yard door of the Koma gallery Café. I wondered about this mysterious thing in my life as I have never imagined that I came to build my place with the Koma sign board under the Yasaka tower. I repeatedly speak about this story with wonder. Actually I created there a space true to the vision of Koguryo’s wind that I had envisioned in my night dream and it manifested an atmosphere of the woods of Mt. Gojo, the birthplace of Koguryo that I had walked through when I had visited there for the first time in May of the year 1998. The wind should be blowing all round the world. To my joy and gratitude, every day many foreign visitors came to the gallery and shed tears out of great impressions. I had installed the Koma sign board as I wished globally to diffuse a new world for every person to live a vigorous life. Now my heart was echoing to people all over the world.
As I saw a field of mustard flowers by the riverside of Kamogawa, memories of my teens that I frequented in Kyoto were revived. An aroma of early spring made me have hope to live on while my early life was full of pains. I envisioned a fresh light that encouraged me. I wrote a poem with a phrase “A breath of ancient people” and now the souls of my ancestors were rewarded, revived and working together with me to create a truly good world.
A life after having encountered Master Idaki Shin was a marvelous one and allowed me to improve my innate destiny and develop unknown inner potentials to the full. I said to myself and smiled that I would like to call this life the great romanticism of history “the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered”. A gust of special wind came from the Yasaka tower when I spent some time in the space of Koma and thought that in reality any person could live a historic and romantic life like mine.