2015年9月のバックナンバー

2015.9. 1

Dramatic Reading of the Manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms in Hindi

This year, as a project promoting peace in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Japan Foundation, New Delhi hosted a screening of On a Paper Crane - Tomoko's Adventure (1993, directed by Seiji Arihara), a film made for peace educational purposes, and an art event to make paper cranes, which were to be dedicated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Some 50 students of local public schools participated in the event. Also, a poetry reading from the book Watashi ga Chiisakatta toki ni [When I was a Child] (edited by Arata Osada) was held together with a presentation of poems written by the participants. These events were based on a dramatic reading of the manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (written by Fumiyo Kouno) held in 2014. Tomoko Kikuchi, the translator of its Hindi edition, who also served as lecturer for the dramatic reading, kindly contributed an article about the event.