"Children's Peace Monument" model Sadako Sasaki's paper cranes to be released in Tokyo October 27, 4:04
One of the folded paper cranes that Sadako Sasaki, who became the model for the "Children's Peace Monument" in Hiroshima Peace Park, actually broke during the fight against illness, was lent to Nakano Ward for the first time next month by a local government in Tokyo. It will be open to the public in the Peace Memorial Museum, which will be opened in
Sadako Sasaki, who died at the age of 12 after developing leukemia after the bombing, was a model of the "Children's Peace Monument" in Hiroshima Peace Park, and continued to fold paper cranes at the hospital until just before her death. ..
This paper crane is stored at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and has been donated to the United States overseas and to Okinawa City in Japan. One of these paper cranes will be in Nakano Ward next month. It will be lent in a form that does not have a fixed deadline.
This is the first time that the folded paper cranes that Sadako actually folded have never been donated or lent to local governments in Tokyo.
Origami cranes will be rented out when a new peace materials exhibition room is built on the site of "Heiwa no Mori Park" on the site of the former Nakano prison where political prisoners were housed during the war. It will be released from the 23rd of March.
Nakano Ward says, "It is very significant to be able to display origami cranes that convey the misery of nuclear weapons at the turning point of 75 years after the war. I hope that many people will see them and think about the preciousness of peace."