"Silk Road"


Jiaohe Ancient City, Turpan, China 31st August 1997
This is one of my favorite heritage in the world.

Can you go back to the time when the road was busy
if you could see a man and doncky bringing silk?
Here's a precious road, only way to the west.
That's why, I'm here from the edge of the east.
I'm sure you can go back to the time when the road was busy.

A girl with grapes wears a colourful shirt.,
but once you leave a house, it's a colourless land.
The sky is blue, the eyes are blue, but my feelings
is not blue anymore.
The sky is high, the cliffs are high, and the ancient city
is high grounded.

"Mangaskeleki" in this dry land.
"Mangaskeleki" all through these thousand years.
On a longest road of the world, I've just thought,
Silk road, Silk road, Silk road...this must be.

written on early Aug 1997 in China, at the town called Turpan
which is located along the silk road.
This town is sit along the silk road and most interesting place
to me around Northwest in China.
It was the town just made me feel happy.