KEIKO KOMA net

18 Apr. 2011

Live a brilliantly shining life free from burdens

Since childhood, while I did not like Japanese traditional costume, Kimono, I questioned many times the reason why we had to put on western wear. Though I did not feel like going out in Kimono myself, I thought, as a Japanese, Kimono might prevail all over Japan, instead of western style dress. It was a strange thing for me that people accepted foreign customs without questioning them. Recently I started to make my costumes by myself as I did not find anything attractive at shops in the street. I did not have to buy as long as I could create something beautiful and nice. I dyed textiles with my marbling drawings and paints that made me feel life in the universe, ultimate freedom, speed and a light feeling with a source of energies to achieve anything. I became liberated from the eyes of others and I could remain true to my identity. I was happy and filled with vigor as I felt a breath of freedom. I recalled that one day I had selected a traditional costume for my performance that was very heavy and made me extremely tense. I could not move my neck as I was loaded with the heaviness of history. So I had to admit my mistake. The other day I ordered a special costume in the fashion of ancient Koguryo using a textile that I had dyed by myself. I put it on and went to the stage and I found myself very light and pleasant, as if I were flying over the vast universe. I was amazed how a costume could change my feeling on stage. These days I had difficulty finding an appropriate costume for my performance. Now I was happy that I could design anything in my life, invent something that did not exist before and create my own stage costumes. I envisioned a marvelous future. I always wished that my works would make a person look more beautiful and nice. I realized that as I live a life true to my innermost wishes, I could live a vigorous life, achieve wonderful things, contribute to other people. Nothing contradicted other things, nor sacrificed other people’s lives. I was amazed at this magnificent nature of humankind and was motivated to tell people all over the world. A completely new human era has come. Each person shall create one’s own life and surrounding circumstances. In the leaflet of the Idaki counseling courses I wrote that a new world should be opened up by oneself. As a new human era has indeed arrived, one should express one’s deepest wishes, true to the demand of life. In ancient times Japanese used to call this state of mind the encounter with a god. Our soul was reviving and our mind and soul trembled at the present era. I was determined to open up our future.