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I came to Japan a month after Kobe’s Earthquake. March 1995. At the Gallery Nakai, in Kyoto, where I was having exhibition, a visitor was invited to have tea with me. He was introduced to me as an Artist who survived the Kobe disaster. He told me that his hands are still trembling, but when he hold a pencil or a brush, drawing and painting, the shakes subside. Dark buildings along the horizon, colorful sky, like the spectrum of light he saw when the earth was trembling.