"When I sat for a while on the engawa with my eyes closed, a scene appeared on my retina. This was not something I saw with my eye, but rather something I felt with my body. Or perhaps it was a scene that someone else sitting in the same place had experienced hundreds or thousands of years ago. This was the kind of thing I imagined during my fruitful time there. Where in the world are we living now? As a tiny entity, I trembled for a moment in cosmic time, but at the same time, I sensed something big flowing beautifully through my being as the inquisitive emotion of prière (prayer) rose up within me. For the next three years, I made regular trips to Kyoto in pursuit of these questions.", Mikiya Takimoto