The kaki tree which was planted on 21 March 2000 at the Museum of Santa Giulia in Brescia, Italy, has borne fruit according to the report from Mr. Manisera. Although the tree’s trunk is not very thick yet, it bears about 20 pieces of fruit. The 10th anniversary event was held at the Museum on 25 March 2010.
On 27 February 2001, the kaki tree was planted at Mishima Gakuen Girls High School. The school has changed its name to Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University High School in the last decade and has changed a lot – it is now a coed school and the number of students has also greatly increased. The tree planting ceremony was held on 30 October 2010, which was also the 110th anniversary of the former Mishima Gakuen. The “Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project in SEIBUN – The Harvest of KAKI consisted of three parts. The part 1 was the 10th anniversary ceremony held at the Kaki Tree Square and members of the student… Read more »
8 tree planting events held between 23 and 26 March 2010 in Brescia, Italy and the 10th anniversary event of the planting on 21 March 2000 at the Museum of Santa Giulia were featured in Gardenia magazine and a copy of the magazine was sent to us.
Two kaki trees were planted on 5 February 2000 at Tsukioka Primary School and the 10th anniversary event was held on 27 October 2010, the school’s foundation day. The then-school principal and artist Mr. Michio Horikawa and tree doctor Mr. Masayuki Ebinuma from Nagasaki attended the ceremony. First, all pupils gathered in the school gymnasium and listened to Principal Mitsuo Yoshida’s talk on the history of the school and the planting of the kaki tree 10 years earlier. Then they watched the Kaki Tree Project DVD, listened to Mr. Ebinuma’s talk and participated in Mr. Horikawa’s workshop “Making Orizuru (folded crane).” The special kaki tree pattern, made from the photo… Read more »
After the plantings in the park of Ogaki Castle, Kono Primary School and Higashi Junior High School in 2000, citizen volunteers had set up the O-kaki Project Executive Committee and promoted various events such as the plantings in 41 locations within the city and chorus festival for the past 10 years. The chorus festival which had continued for 10 years ended on 10th of October 2009 with the final “O-kaki Big Chorus” and the general meeting was held on 1 August 2010 to report on the activities in the past 10 years and to discuss future activities. Ogaki Mayor Bin Ogawa, Mr Masatada Shiratori, Chairman of the Association of Primary… Read more »
The tree planting ceremony was held at Karako Primary School in 2007. Every year a workshop conducted by Anken Kidani is held for pupils to learn about the kaki trees planted in the school ground. A workshop for 3 combined classes was held in cooperation with the municipal office of Higashimatsuyama-City. Pupils learned about the kaki tree, atomic bomb and peace by watching the picture-card show “Kaki Tree Parent and Child” by Mr. Kidani and then they look at the trees in the school ground. Mr. Kidani handed out green and orange papers to the pupils and asked them “to cut out your feelings as if you were the kaki… Read more »
The tree planting ceremony was held at Fondazione Don Angelo Colombo in March 2010. Scuola Secondaria di 1 Grado “L. da Vinci” participated in the ceremony and the school sent us three books entitled “Tree of Life.” There are poems, stories, thoughts and drawings by students which were showcased at the ceremony in March contained in the books. Those works are very touching as they express students’ wishes that we will never repeat the tragedy of Nagasaki.
On 25 March 2000, a kaki tree was planted in the courtyard of magistrate’s court in Carpi, Italy. Then after ten years, on 8 May 2010, the 10th anniversary event of the planting was held and more than 200 children participated. As the anniversary’s theme was “From roots to leaves,” children were regarded as “leaves” and their grandparents were “roots”, and they examined the connections between them. In class, children expressed the relationship with their grandparents freely on the drawing. All the drawings were put together into a book, thanks to the support of the Rotary Club Carpi, and the books were distributed to the participants of the anniversary event…. Read more »
The kaki tree was planted in the foreyard of San Giovanni, the former church in Casciago in the Province of Varese, Italy on 18 March 2010. The tree planting ceremony at the former San Giovanni church. Planting Ceremony / Chiesa Vecchia di San Giovanni Ms Anniva Anzi Achini, who encountered “the seedlings of the bombed kaki tree” at Japanese Pavilion at Venice Biennale 1999, was so impressed that she planted the kaki tree together with the local Casciago people and children from “A. Manzoni” Primary School. Since then, the city of Casciago, mainly at A. Manzoni Primary School, every year celebrates the anniversary of the kaki tree planting and has… Read more »
A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia, Italy and this is one of them. The last tree planting ceremony in the Province of Brescia was held at Centro Nautico Scout near Lake Iseo. This is the place where boy scout activities are conducted and about 2,000 boy scout members per year come here from all over Europe to camp from Spring to Autumn. Being near a lake, children can experience kayaking and yacht sailing, which help them grow. Drawings of peace and war were on exhibit at the venue and they demonstrated their active engagement for the project even before the… Read more »
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 two-hour 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 and equipped with plenty of play equipment – a local recreation area where anybody can enjoy. It… Read more »
A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia, Italy and this is one of them. The tree was planted at “E. Fermi” Salo municipal high school, 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 the Province of Brescia, and was informed of the project. As the executive committee members arrived at the school, students warmly welcomed them. After speeches by the school principal, Tatsuo… Read more »
A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locations in the Province of Brescia, Italy and this is one of them. In the afternoon of the 25th, we were welcomed by local children of Vallio Terme, a small mountain town. The venue was prepared with persimmon colored balloons, a welcome board written in Japanese and handmade persimmon fruits and provided a relaxed atmosphere of the town. Group singing by the nursery school children and singing 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 bombed kaki tree at the end of… Read more »
The kaki tree was planted on 21 March 2000 in the center of the courtyard of the St Giulia Museum, Brescia, Italy. The planting ceremony of the St Giulia Museum Artist Dulio Zogno, who encountered “the seedlings of the bombed kaki tree” at Japanese Pavilion at Venice Biennale 1999, contacted the Japan Cultural Institute in Rome many times about the Project because he was very keen to make it happen and it did take place. Since then, many plantings are taking place every year in different cities in the Province of Brescia thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Rosario Manisera of Associazione cultural italo-giapponese Fuji. The 10th anniversary ceremony was… Read more »
A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locations in March 2010 in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and this was one of them. In the afternoon of 24 March, the tree planting ceremony was held at Martiri di Piazza Loggia Primary School. The school is located at the foot of the mountain in the town of Collebeato. The kaki tree was planted in just about the center of the schoolyard, which was rich in nature, and a beautiful silver plate was attached. They showed hospitality with their handmade items and decorated other trees in the schoolyard with origami. A painting which depicted “life and death” of a… Read more »
A series of tree planting ceremonies were held in 8 locations in March 2010 in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and this was one of them. Fondazione Don Angelo Colombo, the senior care home in Travagliato, had applied for the project and in the morning of 24 March, the tree planting ceremony was held in the garden of the care home. About 250 children from neighboring kindergarten, primary and middle schools participated in the ceremony, and children and the elderly were enjoying each other’s company. At the ceremony, kindergarten children sang a song waving their bandannas, middle school students recited poems by Bob Dylan and gave a bucket drum and… Read more »