PlantingCeremony

1998

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28 MarHatsunenomori Park（Transplanted from1

18 AprWorld Health Organization

2Yanaka Community Center ）Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Geneva, Switzerland

20 AprStrasbourg National Art Institution
Strasbourg, France

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Hatsunenomori Park

Transplanted from Yanaka Community CenterJapan
Taito-ku, Tokyo
28 Mar 1998

Yanaka is the town where old cityscape was

In 2002, the “Future Children Club” organized thesaved and still has communication among people

harvest festival when the kaki tree bore fruits.

who live there as it always has been.

They made dried kaki fruits and cerebrated thegrowth of kaki tree Jr. and its children. Since thisThe project in this town started from theyear, they have held the festival in every year.

exhibition of Kaki Tree Project Report at gallery
CASA in Yanaka. After exhibition, the Yanaka

Kaki Tree was transplanted to the disaster

Kaki tree network was formed. Workshops andcontrol center that placed across the street fromexhibitions by them spread sympathy for the kaki

community center because Yanaka community

trees among people in Yanaka. As the result, thecenter was rebuilding in March 2008. Howeverclub whish elementary students so after school

it was moved, the tree is still watched by thewas set at the Yanaka Community Center. Thenpeople in Yanaka.

finally, planting kaki tree came true at there.
On November 8, 2018, the 20th anniversary
At the planting ceremony, the baby kaki tree wasof the kaki tree harvest festival was held. The

given to the town and many people who involved

Yanaka Community Committee Children's Future

to this project gave speeches. Such as, Mr.Sorato

Department and the Yanaka Children's CenterAsao who was the chief member of the Yanaka

invited about 26 children, ranging from toddlers

Community, Mr. Kozo Noike, the chairman of theto 6th graders and their parents to participate inMisaki town community, Dr. Ebinuma, and Mr.

a workshop and enjoy making dried kakis. During

Tatsuo Miyajima.

the workshop, a teacher from the children'scenter performed a picture-story show, "Kaki no

Following the ceremony, an artist, Ms. Heike

Ki no Oyako (The Little Boy)," and presented theHanada, and children show a performance thatstory of the second generation Bombed Kaki Treesettled on “Okunchi” which is the traditional eventto the children in an easy-to-understand manner.

in Nagasaki to express revival of kaki tree Jr. andThe Kaki Tree Project Committee also informedenergy of life. While younger children drew on thethe children about the spring visit to Yanaka byfabric around the kaki tree with watercolors, older

tree planters from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. We

children manipulated the crafted dragon with theshowed them a coloring book drawn by children

dynamic rhythm by the oriental harp. After thosein Brescia in which a mushroom cloud from theevents, theyA-bombing was transformed into a peaceful tree,

made riceand told them that their Kaki Tree siblings are

cakes they

spreading around the world. We also made lots ofreally like andorigami of kaki nuts with the hope that they will

ate it in front ofbear fruit again next year.

the kaki tree.
Revive Time: Kaki Tree Project | 1998 Planting Ceremony1World Health Organization
Switzerland
Geneva18 Apr 1998

The international art exhibition, “The Edge

scoops in their hands. After the ceremony,of Awareness”, was held from April 1998

Mr. Michal Galasso, who is an American

through 1999 at WHO headquarters inviolinist, came for this and played “OriginalGeneva as the memorial event. Before

music for Kaki Tree”, that he created. The

opening of the exhibition, The Bombed Kakimusic has beautiful melody repeated with atree Jr. was planted in front yard of WHO

little change. That strongly impressed many

headquarters in April 18th, 1998. Ms. Adelina

people who participated the ceremony.

von Furstenberg who was an organizer of theDuring the exhibition, the board of kaki tree

exhibition initiated planting a kaki tree. Thiswas set behind the tree to let everyone whocame up with the content of exhibition thatinvolved the project or citizens in Geneva toincluding finding new receivers of kaki trees.

write messages on it. In the end, the board
used to be white seemed black with filled by

Following speeches from Dr. Ebinuma, Ms.

so many messages.

Hiromi Ebinuma, and Mr. Crisel who was
the director of health and environments

This exhibition retrospective that went

department, messages from the Mayor andaround the world, at UN headquarters in New

the governor of Nagasaki were introduced

York in September 1998, Saw Paulo, Brazil

in the planting ceremony. And “The Peacein December 1998, and New Delhi, India inBell” was gifted from mayor of Nagasaki.

March 1999. We recruited for participatingChildren planted baby trees with holdingkaki tree projects during the exhibition.

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Art Institution
FranceStrasbourg
20 Apr 1998

Strasbourg is the first foreign town where

this city is on the border between Germany!

received kaki trees from Nagasaki. TheSo we got to have kaki trees in our city,” His

beginning of this planting was Tatsuo

passion spread out to the whole city. ThenMiyajima’s exhibition held at the Cartierfinally, that moved the city government andfoundation French in April of 1996. At thethe art school where planted kaki tree.

opening party, Miyajima met Ms. Catherine
Grout who is an art historian, and talked

April 20th, 1998, the day of planting

about the kaki tree project. Ms. Grout wasceremony, Members of executive committee

interested in it because she had participatedwere welcomed by people in the town thatvarious projects, whichmakes them to feel therelate to city or nature.

power of those who

After having conversation

worked for the project.

about nuclear-weapons
test and nuclear war,

Students of school put

Ms. Grout introduced

posters designed bya project about urban

Mr. Noriyuki Tanaka, adesign in Strasbourg at

Japanese artist, all overJune of 1997. Miyajima argued about thisthe school for the planting ceremony. It

with members of executive committee andshows their high interest in it.

introduced Ms. Grout’s project to staff ofJapanese consulates and Europe consulates.

Students planted Bombed a kaki tree Jr. inAs a result, they got more responses than

the warm atmosphere with being surrounded

they expected. But unfortunately, planting aby many people including Michael.

kaki tree did not come off.
There was no workshop for planting kaki
After that, many people had involved thistree. But it was very impressive that every

project to make it come true. Mr. Michel

people in town were interested in the planting

Krieger, an artist who lives in Strasbourg,

ceremony and gathered around to watch it.

heard about the project from Ms. Grout. ThenThat was beautiful scenery. We hope student

he started to appeal for planting kaki trees

feel something to see the kaki tree andin Strasbourg. He said “Strasbourg was theexpress those by making works in the future.

center of war during World War 2 just because
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