Celebrity war experience Exhibition by text and voice Tokyo National 27th July 19:14
Shortly 75 years after the end of the war, an exhibition introducing celebrities' spelled-out sentences and the voices read by the celebrities began in Tokyo's Kunitachi City on the 27th.
The exhibition was opened by a publisher who writes about the experiences and thoughts of celebrities who experienced the war at the end of the war.
At the venue in Tokyo National City, an actor's panel, Ken Takakura, and a cartoonist, Tetsuya Chiba, have 11 panels, and the texts themselves are introduced along with pictures.
Of these, Katsura Katsura, a rakugo storyteller who died at last, celebrated the end of the war in Chiba, where his mother's parents lived, and knew that Yokohama, where he lived at the time, was burned by an air raid, "I can now go home." I'm spelling out how cheap I am.
Also, if you bring a special machine near a part of the panel, you can hear the voice read by the person himself, and those who visited the venue listened to the reading while reading the text on the panel, thinking about the experience 75 years ago. Was running out.
A man living nearby who visited the venue said, "It was the first time that I could hear about the war with the voices of famous people, including those who have already died, and I thought it was a very good way to do it." It was
Maiko Nakajima, president of "Imajinsha," who sponsored the exhibition, said, "Due to the influence of corona, it is difficult to talk directly with the person who experienced the war, but I could hear the read voice, see the sentences and pictures. I want people to think about war in various ways, such as by doing."
This exhibition is held at the "former National Railway Station Building" in Kunitachi City until August 23, changing the contents of the exhibition every week.
Hayashiya Kikusen's thoughts on the war
One storyteller, Rakugo artist Hayashiya Kikusen (82), visited the venue with two disciples.
Mr. Kikusugi, in the schoolyard of his school with his mother, learned about the end of the war when he heard the sound of the ball from the radio and spelled out how the adults around him cried.
Mr. Kikusugi, who had rarely talked about his own war experience, looked back to his younger disciple at the time and said, "I didn't know when an air raid would occur every day and when I would die." I was talking about my experience.
Mr. Kikusugi said, “It was a time when people were dying immediately. It was a job to make people laugh, so I have not talked about the misery of the war so far, but today I'm glad I had the opportunity to talk to my disciples."