I first met Kenji Ishiguro in 1990.
It was around the time that I left my parents’ home in Toyama and was a student in Tokyo.
We traveled together to Jamaica and New York. At the time, Mr. Ishiguro was a teacher at a photography school, and I got to know him through my friend Hajime Honda, who was his student there.
When I was a worry-filled young man in my twenties, he told me, ”You will travel to India, and you will become a good monk,” and advised me on my career.
A year later, guided by his words, I went to India. And now I am JUSHOKU, the resident minister of a temple.
Mr.Ishiguro can be called my “mentor”.
It seems our journey is still continuing. (Photography: Hajime Honda)
