Joongang Il-bo Sept. 30 2015
After her speech and a recital of her own poem A Flower Stamp, the poet Lee Sunshine is greeting the audience at the Open Radio Pop Music Festival held at the Cultural Center in Akita on September 27. On the left stands the president Kudo Yuichi who composed the music to the poem, A Flower Stamp.
A Tanka A Flower Stamp that had consoled the victims of the Great Earthquake performed as a moving song in Akita, Japan
Even in the days of hardship and suffering no night comes without the next morning a flower stamp sealing the shining morning spirit will be set afloat in the sky to let it reach A Flower Stamp by a second-generation Tanka poet, Lee Sunshine, was composed into a song and resonated in Akita, Japan on the 27th. The poet is the eldest daughter of the Korean Tanka poet, Son Hoyeon (1923~2003), who had been greatly beloved by the Japanese. After the Great Earthquake in March, 2011, Lee composed 250 pieces of poetry, one of which is A Flower Stamp.
A Flower Stamp, composed into a song by Kudo Yuichi, the president of the National Radio Pop Music Alliance in Japan, was performed at the 9th Radio Pop Music Festival hosted at the Cultural Center in Akita. This festival is an event introducing the masterpieces that had been broadcasted on NHK Radio between 1946 and 1962.
After Lee read her poem, A Flower Stamp, the composer, president Kudo, himself sang the second part of the poem while conducting the orchestra. About 1500 audience would not stop clapping after the curtain went down.
"It is a great pleasure and honor to present A Flower Stamp in Akita, which is well-known as a location for a Korean TV show, Iris," said Lee at her speech on the stage, "I wish you could get some strength and comfort and I hope Mr. Kudo's wish comes true, a wish to connect good minds between Korea and Japan through Korean literature and Japanese music."
In 2011, the year when the Great Earthquake happened causing ca. 15,000 victims, the poet published two books of poetry both in Korea and Japan, which resonated with Japanese society. The composition of the song A Flower Stamp happened by a request of a renowned journalist Hashimoto Akira, who participated in Lee's publication party in Tokyo two years ago and was deeply moved. Lee currently studies literature at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
"A sincere heart of a daughter, succeeding the spirit of her mother who devoted her whole life singing her hope for the peace between Korea and Japan by means of poetry, reached successfully across the border," said Lee, "I feel rewarded to have contributed to an improvement in recently stiffened Korea-Japan relations."
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