【正】It was raining in Nanjing on December 2,2009.On the morning of this cold winter day,I was shocked to learn that Mr.Ikuo Hirayama had passed away in Tokyo at the age of 79.He was an outstanding cultural envoy as well as a world-renowned artist.For more than half a century, following the footsteps of Xuan Zang (the 7th Century Chinese Buddhist monk,scholar and traveler who journeyed to India in search of knowledge) and overcoming many hard-