KEIKO KOMA net

14 Oct. 2010

The first of October

One year ago I rented an apartment in Kyoto as my second home and I 
anticipated a wonderful future. Joyfully I moved to Kyoto. Then I 
opened a new facility at Yasaka and every time I faced a difficulty I 
was encouraged by the beautiful memory of the day I installed a new 
abode in Kyoto. That was how I overcame the difficult process of 
promoting the Idaki Shin  concert held last winter in Kyoto. Often 
I felt like escaping from there. However as my lovely 
home was there, there was no way to do so, and I endured any negative situation 
till I managed to lead, and the concert ended in a great success. Now I 
have opened another facility in Kyoto, and I am ready to exercise our 
maximum powers to influence our activities in Kyoto for opening up a 
new human world all over the world. On the last day in September I 
held a salon gathering true to a message I had received about a year  
ago when I had bought traditional cushions. Another image I had 
envisioned was special sweets for the gathering and by coincidence Ms. 
Ai had made them for me on time, which eventually made me recall the 
message.
As I arrived at Yasaka late at night, Mr. Idaki Shin started to make 
special sweet beans for rice cake. As I tasted one piece I was filled 
with joy and I realized that it was a taste of Koma. Before leaving 
Yasaka for home Mr. Idaki Shin prepared a package of rice cake for me  
saying that he had made plenty of them for the following day's salon 
gathering so I could take one.  And I welcomed it. Thanks to his 
special rice cakes the salon gathering was filled with the atmosphere 
of ancient Koguryo. I served coffee by myself that did not taste like 
coffee, but something coming from the land of Koguryo. I felt as if we 
were on top of Mt. Gojo and celebrating the arrival of autumn.  I said 
to myself that my coffee was a beverage of ancient Koguryo and rice 
cakes by Idaki Shin were full of an aroma of autumn on Mt. Gojo. I truly 
enjoyed the taste of rich land and the warm atmosphere of people’s hearts . 
All of a sudden I recalled that at the beginning of October ancient 
Koguryo people used to celebrate Heaven. I acknowledged that I had 
held my gathering true to the traditions of Koguryo and expressed our 
gratitude to Heaven and joy at welcoming a rich autumn season in the 
same manner over a long elapse of time. I was looking forwards to see 
what would come next.