After walking through the arcade with thousands of decorations made of origami, she drove west to meet the Supporting Organization for Artists of Tohoku (SOAT) and the Tohoku University of Art and Design (TUAD) in Yamagata prefecture.
Professor Hanazawa, who is in charge of our paper crane sculpture project and also the director of the Children’s Art University at TUAD, took us a tour of the Children’s art camp after our meeting. These children came from Minami-soma in Fukushima prefecture, where the nuclear plant are located, to spend four days there. At first, they seemed to be nervous about the new environment, but soon they became friends!
At the end of her trip, Hiromi had an opportunity to be a part of a summer festival. She had a face-painting and beads bracelet making booth for children. Many children in Tohoku could not go to a beach or swim in a swimming pool in this summer because of the concern for radiation and pollution after the tsunami, so they were so happy to have a summer festival.
This is a dancing tiger. He bites children’s heads to make them smarter. Some small children got scared…
To those of you who watched the video of the Tairyo Utaikomi (Song for Big Catch of Fish) a few weeks ago, I am happy to report their live performance went really well. It was very touching, especially because these fishermen lost their boats and jobs after the tsunami. I hope they can start fishing again sometime soon…
Meanwhile, children painted paper lanterns in daytime, and...
the lanterns were floated on the Pacific later in the evening...
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