“I visited Okinawa for the first time in 1974.

It was a short one-week stay together with some of my senior colleagues, and for some reason I kept sensing that very same dazzling light there right from the time of my arrival up to departure. As if engraved in my memory, the sensation of that somewhat physiological light keeps coming back to me every time I return to Okinawa still today. In other words, no matter what other factors may come into play, what I associate with Okinawa is first and foremost a very personal condition of being irradiated and embraced by light.”