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Hiroshima Peace Day Photos
- Date:
- Sunday 8 August 2010
- Time:
- 10:00am
- Location:
- St Michael's Church
The event at Hiroshima stopped the War and changed the world in an instant. Some would argue that the powerful image changed the way we see our fellow souls while others would say it made no difference at all. Whatever your stance, this is an important day that needs your thoughts to keep its meaning burning in our consciousness for all time.
Come and listen as our musicians reflect on what Hiroshima Sunday means to us today followed by a exotic display of arts and crafts.
- Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) by Miho Araki
- Sumie (Japanese painting) by Emi Kamataki
- Origami folding by Yayoi Okumura
- Ikebana flower arrangement by Ikenobo Melbourne Chapter.
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Ms Shizuka Kandori, a Japanese teacher at Firbank Grammar School and a member of Japanese for Peace, reads "Song of Paulownia", a popular, prize-winning poem written by Nanase Morimitsu, when she was a third-grader.
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Ms Shizuka Kandori and Pamela Smart (Human Rights Convenor) stand beside a photo of the Paulownia tree. (The Paulownia is a tree with remarkable recuperative powers. Two Paulownia trees were exposed to the atomic bomb at a distance of 1.5 km from the hypocentre and were transplanted to the Hiroshima Peace Park in 1973. They survived the bombing, although half of the trunk was burnt to a crisp. After the bombing, it was believed that no plants would grow in Hiroshima for some 70 years. But new buds grew and encouraged depressed survivors to carry on their lives. These trees are a testimony to nature's ability to overcome, and an inspiration to the people of Hiroshima. Some of the survivors have been growing second- generation trees from the seeds of these exposed trees. Wishing to spread the anti-war and anti-nuclear idea all over the country, the survivors have distributed these seeds to visiting students who plant and raise them all over Japan.)
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Eight-year-old Soara, the daughter of artist Miho Araki, demonstrates how to make origami cranes. Soara donated $60 of the proceeds from her stall to the Western Autistic School.
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Syrah Torii, the grand-daughter of Dr Francis and Mrs Sheila Macnab tries her hand at Sumie, Japanese ink painting, at the stall of Ms Emi Kamataki.
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Japanese calligraphy by Miho Araki
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Ms Miho Araki of Ebisu Design gives a demonstration of Shodo, Japanese calligraphy.
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Soara stands beside some of the origami cranes on the tree of good wishes.
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