July 13, 2011
For this year's Tanabata matsuri, my school is making these senbazuru decoration. It is part of my school's "recovery project"s. Since the earthquake and tsunami caused so much damage to people and this country, our school wants to educate the kids to contribute positively for Japan's recovery. Every student folded thesehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif paper cranes, and this week, some students gathered to assemble all these craneshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif. There were around 5,000 cranes in total. The kids had to follow certain patterns to make sure the colours were correct. It was very interesting. This specific decoration is dedicated to the victims in Minami Sanriku (南三陸).
Well, just a brief intro of senbazuru. According to wikipedia, "An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.ane has some sort of spiritual meaning to the Japanese culture." We all hope that Japan will be able to recover soooon.
This decoration will be displayed in Sendai. I hope I could spot it when the decorations are up.
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