PlantingCeremony

2010

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12 Feb

Updated in 2021

Terahara Elementary School
Toride-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

16 Feb

The Kasan Observatory
Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan

24 Feb

Fylingdales church of England Primary School
Huddersfield, UK

22 MarMytham Primary School
Bolton, UK

23 Mar

Arbaleno Station Park
Cazzago, BS, Italy

24 MarComprehensive Institute “Oscar di Prata” Trenzano
Trenzano, BS, Italy

24 MarDon Angelo Colombo Foundation
Travagliato, BS, Italy

24 Mar“Martiri di piazza Loggia” Primary School
Collebeato, BS, Italy

25 Mar“Enrico Fermi” High SchoolSalo, BS, Italy

25 Mar

Vallio Terme Nursery School
Vallio Terme, BS, Italy

26 Mar

Oldofredi Park
Bienno, BS, Italy

26 MarNautical Scout Centre
Pisogne, BS, Italy

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Terahara Elementary SchoolJapan
Toride-shi, Ibaraki
12 Feb 2010

Although two kaki trees were planted atalso attended

Toride Daini Junior High School on 20th

the ceremony.

February 2004, one of them almost died.

Children first

Mr and Mrs Tokuura, then PTA members,

watched thetook a great care of the tree for 5 yearsKaki Treeat home and wonderfully revived the tree.

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It was their wish to plant this tree at an

at the assembly room and then moved toelementary school, which led to the planting

the schoolyard to plant the kaki tree, whichat neighboring Terahara Elementary School.

looked still thin even though it had becomemuch better. Each child put soil over the tree.

At the tree planting ceremony on 12th

At the end, there was a group photo shoot.

February, pupils from two 5th grade classes
planted the tree with other participants. MrEveryone including Mr and Mrs Tokuura will

and Mrs Tokuura and Mr Toru Nukui, the PTA

watch over the tree so that the tree canpresident of Toride Daini Junior High School

firmly take root in Terahara Primary School.

at that time and who initiated the planting,

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1The Kasan Observatory
JapanKyoto-shi, Kyoto
16 Feb 2010

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UK
Huddersfield
24 Feb 2010

Mr Jonathan Adamson, who initiated the planting at Edgerton Cemeteryon 26th March 2006, applied for another planting. Mr Adamson has beenpromoting the project in the area where he lives since the first planting in2006 and has sent a number of letters introducing the Kaki Tree Project tomore than a dozen neighboring schools and churches. Two places among
those have expressed their keen interest in the project and the planting finally
took place at Fylingdales Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary
School. The school is located in northern England.
The planting related events took place for two days, on 24th and 27th ofFebruary. The tree planting ceremony on the 24th of February was held at theprimary school and an original story based on a Japanese old story of Benkei
and Yoshitsune was told. In the story, Benkei and Yoshitsune became friends
again in the end because of a kaki tree. Then the kaki tree was planted as achoir from the town sang.

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3Mytham Primary School
UKBolton
22 Mar 2010

An artist who attended the tree planting ceremony on 11th of September 2006 at the Puerto
Rico Museum of Contemporary Art wrote about the kaki tree in a letter to his sister, who lives
in Bolton, England, and then this lady had proposed to the Bolton Interfaith Council to plant
the kaki tree in Bolton.
The Bolton Interfaith Council is an organization which promotes peace, mutual understanding
and harmony between the people of different faith groups in Bolton. The Bolton InterfaithCouncil had chosen Mytham Primary School as the planting site because the school is locatedin the center of the community and its pupils have learned about the atomic bombing ofNagasaki. The Council also helped with preparation for tree planting.
On the day of the tree planting ceremony, a related event was held at Bolton Town Hall in themorning during which the mayor delivered a message, the Kaki Furoshiki presentation took
place and children sang and recited their poems. In the afternoon, people moved to Mytham
Primary School and the kaki tree was planted in the schoolyard. It was a wonderful tree
planting ceremony because the town of Bolton regards objectives such as “Peace” and “MutualUnderstanding” as important and their strong awareness of those values was felt throughout
the ceremony. The ceremony was also covered hugely by the local newspaper.

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4Arbaleno Station Park
ItalyCazzago, BS23 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies werethat pupils of Maria Rosaria Cassarino Juniorheld in 8 locations in March 2010 in theHigh School had learned well about theProvince of Brescia, Italy, and this was one

seedlings of the bombed kaki tree and hadof them.

expanded on the subject. They are planningto develop peace education programs through

Although the planting itself will take place

other channels such as listening to the elderlyin the Park Station Arcobaleno, the treetalk about their experience during the war atplanting ceremony was held at Maria Rosaria

the elderly center adjacent to the Park Station

Cassarino Junior High School to plant theArcobaleno where the tree will be planted intree temporarily in a bigger pot before thethe ground. It was the event that showed theactual planting takes place in May.

pupils’ eagerness to learn.

About 120 pupil
representatives participatedin the ceremony held in themorning of 23 March. Prior
to the planting, they watcheda video showing the tragedyof Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was made by pupils wholearned about the atomic bomband the bombed kaki tree.
Then a recorder and guitar
performance and singing tookplace. Poems inspired by thebombed kaki tree were very
moving. The kaki tree collage
painting using the “Fruit”
and “Leaves” pasted on thewalls and windows was very
creative and demonstrated

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5Comprehensive Institute“Oscar di Prata” Trenzano
Italy
Trenzano, BS
24 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locationsin March 2010 in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and this wasone of them.
In the morning of 24 March, under the sunny sky, the tree
planting ceremony was held at the Comprehensive Institute“Oscar di Prata” Trenzano and was a very big event. On thestage, guests such as Trenzano mayor, the school principal
and the Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee members
were seated and they enjoyed watching performances by all
students of the school. The event began as they released theballoons with messages of peace into the sky, then a brass
band, karate and dance performances and poetry reading
took place. Especially the dance performance of the students
in Renaissance costume was impressive as it conveyed
their culture. Since a lot of immigrants settled in the area,
there were also performances of folk dances of Eastern
Europe. There were messages of peace, drawings and manga
displayed all over the school which showed the whole schoolcommitment to the tree planting ceremony. For a while thekaki tree will be nurtured in the pot as it is,it will then be moved to the flower gardenof peace which is planned to be built laterat the main entrance of the school.
An executive committee member who joined
the ceremony from Japan brought her son
and it was very lovely to see the 4-year-oldboy enter the ceremony site bringing the kakitree, and the participants were all delighted.

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6Don Angelo Colombo
Foundation
Italy
Travagliato, BS
24 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were heldin 8 locations in March 2010 in the Provinceof Brescia, Italy, and this was one of them.
Fondazione Don Angelo Colombo, the senior
care home in Travagliato, had applied forthe project and in the morning of 24 March,
the tree planting ceremony was held in theInformation materials on Hiroshima andgarden of the care home. About 250 children

Nagasaki that were on display inside thefrom neighboring kindergarten, primary andfacility and children’s posters, drawings andmiddle schools participated in the ceremony,poems which were made prior to the ceremony

and children and the elderly were enjoying

when they had learned about the project were

each other’s company. At the ceremony,

especially fantastic. Their quantity and highkindergarten children sang a song waving

quality were truly amazing. Although many

their bandannas, middle school students

elderly people in the care home are withrecited poems by Bob Dylan and gave adementia, they seemed to be very happy as

bucket drum and xylophone performance, andthey could spend time with children because it

primary school pupils played recorders. Then

is not usual for them to see so many children

the elderly shared their war experience andand that also made us happy. The elderly

the children eagerly listened to them. At thecasually participated in the ceremony andend, everybody joined in the planting of thededicated flowers to the kaki tree as well. Itkaki tree.

was a heart-warming ceremony.

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7Martiri di Piazza Loggia
Primary School
Italy
Collebeato, BS24 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were held

the schoolyard with origami. A painting whichin 8 locations in March 2010 in the Province

depicted “life and death” of a big kaki tree wasof Brescia, Italy, and this was one of them.

displayed in the schoolyard and children cameout of the school building one after anotherIn the afternoon of 24 March, the tree planting

and lined up around the painting. There wereceremony was held at Martiri di Piazza

about 200 of them. PTA also participated inLoggia Primary School. The school is locatedthe ceremony and the parents were warmly

at the foot of the mountain in the town ofwatching over their children. Children in theCollebeato. The kaki tree was planted in justupper grades recited poems and those in theabout the center of the schoolyard, which wasearly grades sang a song. It was a peacefulrich in nature, and a beautiful silver plate wastree planting ceremony and their clear voiceattached. They showed hospitality with theirechoed forever in the mountain town.

handmade items and decorated other trees in

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8"Enrico Fermi” High School
Italy
Salo, BS
25 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locationsin the Province of Brescia, Italy and this is one of them.
The tree was planted at “E. Fermi” Salo municipal highschool, which is surrounded by beautiful nature and looks
down Lake Garda.
When Mr Massimo Sgarbi, English teacher of the school,
participated in “the Peace Procession,” he met Mr Francesco
Foletti from Cansorzio Travolo Della Pace Franciacorta –Monte Orfano, which supports the kaki tree planting in theProvince of Brescia, and was informed of the project.
As the executive committee members arrived at the school,
students warmly welcomed them. After speeches by theschool principal, Tatsuo Miyajima and the mayor of Salo, thetree planting ceremony was solemnly held in the courtyard
looking down Lake Garda.
A moment of silence was offered to the kaki tree and aspeech delivered by the student representative voiced adetermination to end the atomic bombing after Nagasaki andspread the awareness of peace to the world. The courtyardof the high school with 700 students can be seen fromanywhere in the school, so the kaki tree is able to speak tostudents about peace everyday.

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9Vallio Terme Nursery School
Italy
Vallio Terme, BS
25 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies werewas held. With information materials onheld in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia,

the atomic bomb victims in Japan and

Italy and this is one of them.

other related subjects on display, the venue
offered an opportunity to contemplate peace.

In the afternoon of the 25th, we were

The nursery school children took Japanesewelcomed by local children of Vallio Terme,children’s hands, who came all the way

a small mountain town. The venue wasfrom Japan, and they showed them around

prepared with persimmon colored balloons,

the nursery school. As children showed usa welcome board written in Japanese andtheir superb communication skills by making

handmade persimmon fruits and provided

friends easily without language but with aa relaxed atmosphere of the town. Groupsmile, we all felt a step towards peace.

singing by the nursery school children andsinging of the English song “Imagine” by
primary school children brought everyone
there together, and the children cheerfully put
soil over roots of the seedling of the bombedkaki tree at the end of the ceremony. All theadults including the mayor warmly watchedover them for the entire time.
After the tree planting ceremony, a gathering

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10Oldofredi Park
Italy
Bienno, BS26 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were
held in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia,
Italy and this is one of them.
Bienno is a small medieval town, it is a twohour drive from the city of Brescia passed
Lake Iseo. Italy’s first UNESCO World
Heritage site, Parco nazionale delle incisioni
rupestri di Naquane, is situated near the town
and the town itself is renowned for its iron
goods and fresh water. Town’s population
has been slowly increasing in recent years
due to immigrants.
Oldofredi Park is located in the town center andequipped with plenty of play equipment – alocal recreation area where anybody can enjoy.
It is the perfect place to plant the kaki tree.
As we were waiting for the tree planting
ceremony in the empty park, children started
coming one after another. Soon the park wasincluding the mayor’s, understanding offilled with children and was full of life. Eventhe project. School supervisor Mr Vittorio

before our visit, they had engaged in various

encouraged children to become people who

activities to understand the project such as

create peace together with adults.

learning and understanding Japanese culture,making a welcome board written in Hiragana

Later an olive tree, a symbol of peace, will

and making drawings of peace and war. At thealso be planted in the park and we hope thesetree planting ceremony, primary school pupils

three trees – the older kaki tree, the seedling

together sang “Tree of Peace.” A secondaryof the bombed kaki tree and the olive treeschool student delivered a good speech as the– equally prosper. The children’s drawings

student’s classmates looked on.

entrusted to the executive committee
members have arrived in Japan safely.

The most impressive thing was local adults’,
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11Nautical Scout Centre
Italy
Pisogne, BS26 Mar 2010

A series of tree planting ceremonies were

theme of “Peace” by a local artist was also

held in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia,

installed next to the kaki tree.

Italy and this is one of them.
Although it was raining that day, time
The last tree planting ceremony in thepassed peacefully during the tree planting

Province of Brescia was held at Centro

ceremony as we were being embraced by

Nautico Scout near Lake Iseo. This is the placenature’s greatness. The ceremony started

where boy scout activities are conducted andwith the national flag raising, then they sang

about 2,000 boy scout members per year

together and listened to children play thecome here from all over Europe to camp fromrecorders. Among the participants, the mayor

Spring to Autumn. Being near a lake, childrenof a neighboring city as well as Japanese

can experience kayaking and yacht sailing,

consul-general in Milan were present. Local

which help them grow.

community members worked together andtheir effort to raise awareness for peace was

Drawings of peace and war were on exhibit

embodied in the ceremony.

at the venue and they demonstrated theiractive engagement for the project even before

We hope that this campsite will be a platform

the tree planting. The tree was planted on

to contemplate peace and our future throughthe right hand side of the campsite entrance

the seedling of the bombed kaki tree.

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