| profile | About us | Schedule/Ticket | CD,BOOK,Onlineshop | HOME |

Story of "Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered"

Ms. Keiko Koma was born as a direct descendant of the royal dynasty of Koguryo, an empire that flourished for about 800 years and was overthrown in A.D. 668. The first king in exile, Jakko, settled his community in the 7th century in Japan. Since then her family has maintained the name "Koma" and the traditions of Koguryo at this very remote place.
Koguryo enjoyed a very unique history, cultural diversity and richness that have never been fully exploited. A magnificent circumstance full of heavenly light gave birth to the first king, Shumong, who was latter called King Tongmyong Songwang. Though battles often took place, Koguryo always remained the most glorious nation in Asia, exercising its outstanding power and leadership. In the era of King Yongyang Wang of Koguryo, King Yang Ti of Sui went on campaign and invaded Koguryo with as many as two million soldiers. General Ulchi Mundok of Koguryo said that heaven wished to defeat his enemy, and with only 20 thousand soldiers he succeeded.
A king of Koguryo was said to understood the will of the heaven: he was living in harmony with celestial principles and understood all his people. Otherwise he would withdraw from his throne. So she inherited the very nature of her ancestor and understood the destiny of the modern people taking this planet as one nation. She suffered because she could not do anything to change it and she almost died of deep despair and pain, felt both spiritually and physically. Then she encountered Mr. Tadamitsu Saito by chance. He played music for her and merely by listening to the sound of his piano, she came to acknowledge that the interruption of the stream of Koguryo's history had passed on to her such irresistible grievances that she was also destined to repeat that history of destruction after glory. The more she came to understand what was engraved on her, the more she recovered from disease and drew back from the mental abyss. Through this miraculous experience, she acknowledged that what she believed to be her personal problem derived from the history of a nation.
Then she decided to trace back her ancestors' true history together with Mr. Saito by visiting the historic sites of Koguryo. They proceeded from the tomb of King-Jakko in Japan to Huanren(China) and Mt.Paektu (North Korea). She took advantage of her innate ability as a shaman queen and created texts based on inspiration from the ancient spirit of her ancestors, while Tadamitsu Saito filmed the moment of their encounter, which was later combined, accompanied by a musical performance and edited in the form of video program.



Wunushan castle

At the stela of King
Kwanggaeto's inscription

At Paektu Mountain



In the course of this travel she encountered the Phoenician civilization as a probable source of Koguryo and visited Lebanon.

 


Knight in battle

In the year 1998, she lost her parents. Her father wished her to deliver to everybody on earth the truth that she has manifested throughout her life. She followed his last will and invested his remaining fortune to establish an NPO called KOMA and decided to publish this video entitled Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered.

 


At Huanren town near Mt.Wunushan

Then she understood that no matter what particular history each nation or race has had so far, what everyone can naturally agree on is that the "Heart and Soul of the people" all over the world seek to love each other and to realize peace. She followed her trip tracing the origin of Kuguryo until reaching Ethiopia, one of the birthplaces of the human species. There she was allowed to utter simple but very true words;

 

Human life has the same origin: Love.

It is this core of humanity that Mr. Tadamitsu Saito is expressing through his works and is generating the dynamic energy of life, common to all human beings, giving strength to tackle global problems and give birth to a new society. This is how at the end of this trip in search of the origin of her family, Keiko Koma initiated the idea of the Cosmic Manifesto Project in Ethiopia, where all human beings with their own glory, culture and spiritual richness would finally arrive and meet unanimously with people of any other nationalities if they would go back to their very origin. The Cosmic Manifesto concert will reverse such a process of discovery. It starts from the original spirituality of human beings and drives forth towards the future, the creation of a new human history necessary to live on in this cosmic age.

 

Chronology of Koguryo
39 B.C.: Koguryo was established in the Puyo district in the hills of Amnokkang, then expanded its territory over the Sungari river and into that of the Han dynasty of China.
A.D. 197: Wandu castle was established.
392:

King Kwanggaeto was crowned at the age of 18. He greatly expanded his territory, coming to rule 24 castles and 1400 villages.

413:

King Changsu Wang moved the kingdom to Pyongyang, stabilized the nation, and successfully expanded its territory to the utmost.

590:

 King Yang Ti of Sui invaded Koguryo with 2 million soldiers but was defeated by an army of 20 thousand soldiers led by general Ulchi Mundok. 

642: The empire was overthrown by the allied force of Tang and Shilla, that invaded Koguryo taking advantage of discord in its royal family. 

Concert digest videos

Lebanon concert2005

Lebanon concert2009

Russia concert

China Concert

Jordan Concert

Bitola , Macedonia Concert

 

Ohrid , Macedonia Concert

Romania Concert

About Us | Contact Us | Access Map | ©2008 IDAKI Corporation All rights reserved.