Bamboo light making wishing for reconstruction before the Tokyo Olympics torch arrival ceremony Miyagi Higashi Matsushima February 23 20:25
Before the torch ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture next month, parents and children challenged to make bamboo lights to hope for recovery from the disaster.
The torch of the Tokyo Olympics will arrive at the Air Self Defense Force's Matsushima Air Base in Higashi Matsushima City by special transport aircraft on the 20th of next month after the ceremony for the ignition in Olympia, Greece.
Inhabitants of Nobiru, Higashimatsushima City, and volunteers of companies located in the district, are planning to arrange about 1,000 bamboo lights on a local canal on the 19th of the month before the torch arrives in hope of recovery from the disaster.
The bamboo lighting was held on the 23rd, and about 20 people including parents and children participated. Bamboo used in local oyster farming was reused, and participants participated in drilling holes in pre-marks, advising them to fix the bamboo.
When completed, the pen wrote words such as "dream" and "do your best" with a pen.
A 30-year-old mother who joined her daughter in her first grade in elementary school, wrote, "I'll do my best for both reconstruction and children's studies. I want to tell children who haven't experienced the disaster what they were at the time." That's it. "
Mr. Kiyoko Mitsui, who promoted this initiative, said, "This bamboo light has a meaning of requiem and prayer, so I want to turn on a lot of lights on the day."