KEIKO KOMA net

6 June 2011

In Kyoto

Today I went to Kyoto from Tokyo, Till yesterday I was in the Tohoku district so I moved from the north to the east of Japan and the landscape changed accordingly. Wind and aroma touched my heart. I was filled with happiness as I felt embraced by light and cherished by nature. The brilliantly shining blue of trees of the land of the north awakened my life and made my life shine. The deep blue of the Kitakami river looked like the color of a big river traversing the mainland. The light-scape of waving willows opened my heart and made me cheerful. In Kyoto gently waving willows by the Kamogawa river attracted my heart. As I stood by the river I felt a great nostalgia for my home and also a sign of a marvelous future. I recalled that one day I had envisioned in a night dream that a good encounter would happen if I would walk along a riverside. In Morioka I drove along the riverside all the way from Morioka city to Miyako. At night in the darkness, I saw a pure stream of water that was perpetuated in my heart. In Kitakami, I crossed the Kitakami river many times. Its blue color of water was also perpetuated in my heart. Like this I went to the riverside many times. I anticipated that a new encounter would happen. I was surrounded by an aroma for new encounters that would open up our future.

An aroma of ancient water
Has revived now.
The remote past would come from an unknown future.
Encounters.
The unity of life.
The beginning of a new era.