A poet from a high school teacher in Fukushima gives a lecture at an elementary school.
Ahead of the Great East Japan Earthquake, nine months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, a high school teacher from Fukushima Prefecture, who is also a poet, gave a lecture at an elementary school in Yamaguchi, saying, "I have dreams for many lost lives. I want them to continue climbing the mountain of life. "
The lecture was given by Ryoichi Wago, a teacher and a poet at a high school in Fukushima Prefecture, who wrote a collection of poems "Shinotsubute" written immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Three years ago, he received a French literature prize, and has received a great response both in Japan and overseas.
At a lecture given by about 110 sixth-grade students at Daito Elementary School in Yamaguchi City, Mr. Wago described the tsunami at the time of the earthquake as "a large black wall," "Was told.
In addition, after fulfilling his dream of becoming a police officer, the poem entitled "Schoolbag" was drunk by the tsunami while calling on residents to evacuate to a hill at the seaside during the earthquake, and presented to students who had not been found yet. Was introduced.
Then he said, "For a lot of lost lives, keep on climbing the mountain of your own life with dreams."
One of the girls said, "Poetry is very different from ordinary words, and the content goes straight into my heart. I want to do my best for those who died in the earthquake."