Unconsciously I Do...
I read the Independent article; '390-year-old bonsai tree survived the Hiroshima nuclear bomb - and nobody knew until 2001'.
When I was a high school student, we had a special class to think about world peace during summer. Because Japan is the only atom-bombed country. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are far away from my home town, but we visited Hiroshima on our school trip. We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial and the Peace Memorial Museum. In the museum many mementos were displayed. The most unforgettable item was a girl's flower printed shirt. The white shirt was remaining but only parts of flower prints were burnt to a crisp. Because the colour white was able to protect both humans and objects from the effects of radiation. I and my friend had stayed in the museum longer, and lost all concept of time. We got yelled at by teacher for being late back to a bus. When we went back, all students were eating lunch boxes in the bus, but we couldn't feel like eating after visiting the museum. At night, we heard the details from atomic bomb survivor about how they survived. They were nothing less than miraculous. Japanese people are fully aware of the paramount importance that war stories should hand down from generation to generation and don't repeat it.
It doesn't only mean that it's the 70 years since the end of WWII, but I always think about the war in August unconsciously. In fact, I used to have scary dreams of war during summer. Perhaps because summer has many meanings for Japanese such as atom-bomb and end of the war. And also I had had such classes at school and had committed to make many origami cranes for Sendai Star Festival to wish a world peace every year. They were decorated at the festival as Thousand Origami Cranes. It's a group of a thousand cranes which is believed that anyone who folds cranes will be granted a wish by cranes.
Why don't you try to make an origami crane?
When I was a high school student, we had a special class to think about world peace during summer. Because Japan is the only atom-bombed country. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are far away from my home town, but we visited Hiroshima on our school trip. We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial and the Peace Memorial Museum. In the museum many mementos were displayed. The most unforgettable item was a girl's flower printed shirt. The white shirt was remaining but only parts of flower prints were burnt to a crisp. Because the colour white was able to protect both humans and objects from the effects of radiation. I and my friend had stayed in the museum longer, and lost all concept of time. We got yelled at by teacher for being late back to a bus. When we went back, all students were eating lunch boxes in the bus, but we couldn't feel like eating after visiting the museum. At night, we heard the details from atomic bomb survivor about how they survived. They were nothing less than miraculous. Japanese people are fully aware of the paramount importance that war stories should hand down from generation to generation and don't repeat it.
It doesn't only mean that it's the 70 years since the end of WWII, but I always think about the war in August unconsciously. In fact, I used to have scary dreams of war during summer. Perhaps because summer has many meanings for Japanese such as atom-bomb and end of the war. And also I had had such classes at school and had committed to make many origami cranes for Sendai Star Festival to wish a world peace every year. They were decorated at the festival as Thousand Origami Cranes. It's a group of a thousand cranes which is believed that anyone who folds cranes will be granted a wish by cranes.
Why don't you try to make an origami crane?
- How to make an Origami Crane; http://www.monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/
