Hiroshima - 3rd Generation Exhibition: Succeeding to History

Let's begin by "Considering"
- What Hiroshima tells us -

What could memories of Hiroshima give us?
How and where should we go with them?

This summer "Little Hiroshima" will open in Tokyo, giving us a chance to more deeply know and feel Hiroshima.

Three areas:"Listening" "Learning" "Knowing" are set up for you to experience as hints for your thinking.
Find your own answers and share them with us in the area "Succeeding".

About the Exhibition

July 30(Thur.)
- August 6(Thur.),2015

*A part of the event will be performed at the same time as Toro-nagashi festival in the area of Motoyasukawa River in Hiroshima, August 6 (Thur.)

  • Space
    space&cafe Polepole-Za

    POLEPOLE-Za Bldg.1F Higashinakano 4-4-1, Nakano-ku Tokyo 164-0003
    TEL:03-3227-1445
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  • Time
    11:30-23:00

    August 3 is space's regular closing day.
    Exhibition(free) : open 14:00 to 18:00 on August 2,
    open 7:45 to 9:00 / 12:00 to 17:30 on August 6

  • Entrance
    Exhibition : free

Information

2015.08.06
Thank you for everything, the Exhibition went smoothly.
2015.07.30
The Exhibition have just opened.
2015.07.28
Update of Director Kubota's grandmother's interview
2015.07.28
Update of Akito Kono's interview
2015.07.28
Update of Emiko Okada's interview
2015.07.28
Update of Masami Nagata's interview
2015.07.28
Update of Yumie Hirano's interview
2015.07.03
Update of HIROSHIMA SPEAKS OUT's interview
2015.07.02
Update of Yasukazu Narahara's interview
2015.06.26
Update of Mayu Yasuda's interview
2015.05.06
Kamakura FM introduced our exhibition.
2015.05.01
Official website opened.
2015.04.13
We launched our Twitter.
2015.04.13
We launched our Facebook page.

Concept

Hiroshima - 3rd Generation Exhibition: Succeeding to History is run by the group of creators mainly in thirties.
In this project, every member, including the representative, will directly face so profound theme: "War and Peace" for almost the first time.
In 2015, 70 years after the World War II, our generation without any experience of a world war should have a decisive will to know, learn, and listen to what happened in the past, think about what it really means, and try to find our own answers.
We suggest that it should be important for us to not only accept it but also connect it with our own reality.
For this year on, all over the country, we will set up a spot for you to find and take the first step, that is, Hiroshima - 3rd Generation Exhibition: Succeeding to History.

Memory keepers are determined to pass on their experience in Hiroshima A-bombing to the next generation and talk.
Do the listeners, however, really know their determination and feel their given mission?
They might passively listen to them and accept just what happened in the past.
For the transfer of their a-bomb memories, speakers and listeners should be both there.
One way of telling does not realize the transfer. It needs collaborative efforts on both sides.
"Succeeding" originally means to keep things going on and not to stop it.
It refers to connect two things, or graft something to another to grow --
that is to say -- their telling War' s experiences should be an action to hand it down to the second, or the third generation.
When I notice that " I " myself also should be "the one who pass on what was succeeded," I cannot help concentrate on and get drawn into what memory keepers are talking about the day.

Tetsuro Shimojima

"Is Peace ‘boring' ?"
500 days of discussions between Himeyuri students and young people ( 2006) Iwanami Shoten, Publishers

Exhibition

Knowing

The 3rd generation's view of Hiroshima

Old days continue in our time. Let's trace back from 2015 to 70-year-ago Hiroshima through Hiroshima landscape photographs.
Photos from Makoto Oikawa, Sanae Yamamoto (2015), Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Exhibits of Original illustrations in "HIROSHIMA – A Tragedy Never to Be Repeated"

Original illustrations in "HIROSHIMA – A Tragedy Never to Be Repeated" (Fukuinkan) are on display. The illustrator, Shigeo Nishimura, who had stayed at Hiroshima for a long time and made so many minute interviews with An A-bomb survivors, realized the most realistic scenes of 70-year-ago Hiroshima.
Illustrations from Shigeo Nishimura

Learning

Panel display of materials relating to Hiroshima A-bombing

Details of A – bombing on Hiroshima and actual conditions of devastations are displayed.
Panels from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Information of Hiroshima-related books

Books and illustrated books full of hints for peace study are introduced.

Listning

Hiroshima real talk

During the event, A-bombing survivors, memory keepers, and peace volunteers welcome you in this area. Feel free to talk about whatever you want to know or ask about Hiroshima. Sponsors and promotors are always staying to help you.

  • July 30-31, Aug. 4-5 13:00-15:00 / 18:30-20:30
  • August 1 * during "Let's make a Floating lantern workshop" 12:30-14:00 / 16:30-18:00
  • August 2 15:00-18:00
  • August 6 12:30-14:30 / 16:30-17:30

Display of interviews with Hiroshima memory keepers

What are Hiroshima memory keepers feeling now, and trying to pass on?
Records of interviews with 8 people, including An A-bomb survivors, memory keepers who give lectures on Hiroshima abroad, and peace volunteers are displayed.

Succeeding

Let's put your message into Floating Lantern!

Website will open on July.

Let's write down your actions and message for peace, put it into a Floating Lantern and see them floating on the screen in this area. You can take part in this event with your smart phone, tablet, or PC.
* On August 6, the lanterns you made will be floating on Motoyasu River in Hiroshima, where Toro Nagashi Festival will be held on the same day.

Event

For "Let's make a Floating lantern workshop", "Lamplight concert" and "Reciting a drama event", please make an appointment on Reservation form
The acceptable number of participants is limited according to the event space or conditions.

8/1(Sat.)

12:30-14:00

16:30-18:00

Let's make a Floating lantern workshop - capacity: 12 for each session*Reach the fixed number

Let's make a Floating lantern and put your message onto it, talking with An A-bomb survivors and memory keepers from Hiroshima there. Peace Porter Project will bring the Floating lanterns you made to Hiroshima and let them float on the river on Toro Nagashi Festival, August 6th.

Guests
Emiko Okada (An A-bomb survivor), Yumie Hirano (memory keeper of A-bombed experience), Sandaime Harukoma (marketing consultant, musician, martial artist) and others.
*Guests might be changed.
Entry Fee
500 for one Toro
*including the costs of its materials and transporting fee to Hiroshima

8/2(Sun.)

12:00 Open

13:00-14:00

Lamplight concert - capacity: 50*Reach the fixed number

Musicians and performers from Hiroshima are facing the day of August 6.

Performers
PORI(tap dancer),Ryoko Kubota(vocal),Shiina to Shu(Masako Shiina(Vocal / Piano),Shu Kajiyama(Vocal / Bass)),Arata Umehara(Guitar), Naoshi Okamura(Movie)
Entry Fee
Adults 2,500 yen / Collage students, high school students, junior high school students 1,500 yen / Elementary students and younger Free
* Café is open

8/6(Thur.)

7:45 Open

8:00-9:00

Let's experience the morning in Hiroshima on August 6.

"When we were children in Hiroshima, in the morning on August 6, we watched peace memorial ceremonies with any channels of TV."
On the last day of this event, August 6, doors will be open from the early morning, broadcasting the peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on the screen. Let's offer a silent prayer together for the victims at 8:15. Let's experience the morning in Hiroshima here in Tokyo.

8/6(Thur.)

18:30 Open

19:30-21:30

Closing event:reciting a drama "Titi to Kuraseba –Living with my father" (90 minutes) - capacity: 50*Reach the fixed number

original author: Hisashi Inoue

Performers
Performers:Alice Yanagida , Noe Tawara (reciters),Yoshiharu(music,narrator)
Guest messengers: Akito Kono(An A-bomb survivor)
Closing greeting: Ryoko Kubota
Music video: "Yunagi – an evening calm" on the screen
Entry Fee
Adults 2,500 yen / Collage students high school students, junior high school students 1,500 yen / Elementary students and younger Free
* Café is open

Reservation form

Event reservation will complete with reply mail with serial number.
If you reserve with more than one person,please write down other people's name, age (school year in the case of students) in the remarks column.
*required.

* We stopped accepting applications because there is no more place available.

Access Map

Tokyo

space&cafe POLEPOLE-Za

Place space&cafe POLEPOLE-Za
Tokyo, Nakano-ku Higashinakano 4-4-1 POLEPOLE-Za Bldg. 1F
TEL:+81-3-3227-1445

  • ・On the JR Chuo-Sobu Line 1 minute walk from the Higashinakano station's west exit
  • ・On the Toei Subway Oedo Line 1 minute walk from the Higashinakano station's A1 exit
  • ・On the Eidan Subway Tozai Line 10 minute walk from the Ochiai station's A1 exit

Hiroshima* Only August 6th

On Motoyasu River in Hiroshima, where Toro Nagashi Festival.

Hiroshima - 3rd Generation Exhibition: Succeeding to History

Organization Chart of Executive Committee

  • Representative, organizer: Ryoko Kubota
  • Deputy representative:PORI(Yuta Hori)
  • Planning assistance, place design:Orochi Ichijou
  • Planning assistance, camera:Makoto Oikawa / Sanae Yamamoto

Let's put your message into Floating Lantern!

  • Technical cooperation Archetype Ventures Inc.
  • Shiho Sakamoto
    (generalization / director)
  • Masayuki Daijima
    (technical director)
  • Music:Mami Kamata
  • Server:Hajime Matsumoto

Publicity

  • Logo design:Tetsuro Ito
  • Poster design:Naoki Izumi
  • Web coding:Yuka Nishida
  • English translation cooperation
  • Yasuko Tomita
  • William R Nelson

Display of interviews with Hiroshima memory keepers

  • Transcription:Tsuyoshi Kato
  • Interview assistance
  • Koichi Taoda
  • Yukiko Matsuike
  • English translation cooperation
  • HIROSHIMA SPEAKS OUT

Exhibits of Original illustrations in "HIROSHIMA – A Tragedy Never to Be Repeated"

  • Caption
  • Kou Yamamoto
  • Tsuyoshi Okuda

Panel display of materials relating to Hiroshima A-bombing

  • Display design
  • Takahiro Nitta

Event

  • Reservation support
  • Saori Sarai
  • Hosting progress
  • Yuki Takata
  • Rie Fukuoka
  • Movie:Naoshi Okamura
  • Event Director:Tatsuya Kosuge

Hiroshima - 3rd Generation Exhibition: Succeeding to History

The representative Ryoko Kubota's message

* NHK Hiroshima interview of reciting the drama "Titi to Kuraseba – Living with my father"

* Youtube music video "Yunagi - an Evening calm" by Ryoko Kubota

//youtu.be/Kq95zgCrxeY

My hometown is Hiroshima, and my grandmother is a A-bomb survivor.
Last year, I had a chance to teach a reciter Hiroshima dialect who would read aloud a drama "Titi to Kuraseba – Living with my father," which story was set in Hiroshima. Coordinating this reciting event in Hiroshima, I faced again August 6.

I was deeply impressed by the sincere attitude of the reciter and actress, who tried hard to receive the messages from Hiroshima A-bombing tragedy and recite the story with her whole heart. She is from one other prefecture. This gave me an opportunity to reconsider what I – I am from Hiroshima –should and have to do for my hometown.

First of all, I made my feelings into a song "Yunagi—an Evening calm" with my impressions through the reciting event.

For making a music video for this song, I visited several places and people associated with the theme.
Through the experiences, I felt naturally and deeply the warmth, pain, and strength rooted in Hiroshima.

"The 3rd generation, who has grown up without any experience of the war, should succeed to the A-bombing memories and the survivor' s feelings." We know its importance in mind, but we might not be aware of it enough without any opportunity for that in our real life. In the meantime, the voice of the A-bomb survivors tends to get weakened with the passing of the years.

In the questionnaire to 1,526 A-bomb victims all over the country, performed by Chugoku Shimbun (newspaper) in 2014, there was a question "What kind of action do you think will be the most effective for handing down your A-bomb experiences to the subsequent generation?(multiple answers)"

--Peace study, including school excursion to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, should be activated. 45.7%
--The second and third generation of A-bomb victims, and their family members should succeed to their memories. 37.2%
-- Next-generation professional tellers and guides such as "Memory keepers" in Hiroshima, or "Peace guide" in Nagasaki, should be brought up and continued to be supported. 33.8%
The three answers above are largely assented.

How should we work on the task of"peace study "or "succeeding to Hiroshima' s history"? When we receive the revived knowledge of the war, what should we learn from it? How should we move on with it? When the survivors tell their war memories in the present day, how should they themselves feel? What do they try to convey?

I planned this project with the artists, actors and creators from Hiroshima or other prefectures who is considering "succeeding to Hiroshima' s history".

This Exhibition aims at setting up a spot for those who are not yet familiar with peace study, especially for young people, and providing them with an opportunity to generally think about war and peace centering on A-bombed Hiroshima.

From this year on, this Exhibition will go around all over the country. It would be my extreme happiness if the visitors get a hint for their thinking about the devastation in the past, and find their own questions and answers.

Ryoko Kubota

*NHK Hiroshima interview of reciting the drama " Titi to Kuraseba – Living with my father"

*Youtube music video "Yunagi—an Evening calm" by Ryoko Kubota

//youtu.be/Kq95zgCrxeY