CHORO-KAN (Morning Dew Museum)
The CHORO-KAN CONCEPT
Something I want to tell
Something I have to tell
For dead people never come back
Floor Guide / 1F
| KOREA | Halla-san by Mr. KIM Myung-Sikon the armed uprising on Cheju Island on April 3, 1948. CHORO means “morning dew” in his poem. |
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| Poem by Mr. YunDong-ju | Prologue to Sky, Wind, Star and Poem. He was a Korean poet who went to Japan in 1941, studied at Rikkyo University, Doshisha University and was arrested and imprisoned in Fukuoka, where he died on 16 February, 1945 at the age of 27. Poem by Ms. NAGASAWA Nobuko Quo Vadis? (Where are you going?)by Mr. OHARA Miyao |
| MIDDLE EAST | Palestine -Intifada (uprising) Iraq - DU (Depleted Uranium) |
| CHERNOBYL | A prayer for Chernobyl by Ms. Svetlana Alexievich, thewinner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 |
| FUKUSHIMA | Name of the towns victimized by the Nuclear Power Plants Disaster in 2011 |
Floor Guide / 2F
| HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI | Poem by Ms. SYODA Shinoe(given by Ms. TSUKIO Sugako), Ms. SAEKI Toshiko and Ms. ISHIKAWA Itsuko |
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| Victims of the Asia-PacificWar | Did you go to CHIDORIGAFUCHI? by Ms. ISHIKAWA Itsuko (his partner, poet for peace) |
| AUSCHWITZ | SHOAH by Mr. Claude Lanzmann (translated into Japanese by Mr. TAKAHASH Taketomo) |
| CHINA | WANRENKENG (Wànrénkēng) - Many Chinese wereforced to work in the HANAOKA mine (Ohdate, AKITA Pref.) and elsewhere. At HANAOKA, the victims protested and many were killed by the military police and so forth. A memorial service is held every year. |
| OKINAWA | Poem of Yuuko Toubaru. |
