| Our generation was born after the Second World War which our parents
had lived through, and is called "the mass generation", meaning baby boomers.
This generation of ours grew out of the defeated nation of Japan and our
growing up coincided with the reconstruction followed by the economic advancement.
We have experienced the process where Japan, having started from the state
of ashes after her surrender, has developed into the present economic power
---- overflowing materially. Now we find ourselves in the 21st Century,
what is called the times of spirit rather than matter. We have begun to
realize the fact that many important things are lost in exchange for material
abundance. We seem to be standing transfixed by the bottomless dark we
hold deep in our heart gloomily. When we think about what has put us in
such a situation, human "desire" is found there expanding boundlessly.
We ought to shake ourselves free from such a desire which grows, knowing
no bounds, and aim at purifying and regenerating our souls. Thereby arise
hopes for the future, I believe. My work was produced with such thoughts
as a theme.
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"Resistance" CODA
/ Apeldoorns Museum
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