Before the 28th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the 17th, Keiko Takeshita, an actor and honorary director of the Kobe City Library, held a poetry reading session to pass down the memories of the disaster to children. I was.

The reading session was held on the 15th at the Kodomo no Mori Kobe Library in Chuo Ward, Kobe City, with the aim of handing down the memories and lessons learned from the disaster to children. About 100 people including parents and children participated.



At the reading session, Ms. Keiko Takeshita, honorary director of the museum, read eight poems written by victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, accompanied by a mandolin performance.

Among them, the poem titled "Kodou" is about a mother who died trying to save her child when her home collapsed at the time of the earthquake. There was also a guardian who floated.



A 4th grade girl said, "It's the first time I've heard about the earthquake, but I thought it was very scary that a big building would collapse in an earthquake."



Mr. Takeshita said, "It's been 28 years since the earthquake, but what happened in this place and how did the people who suffered from the disaster perceive it? I want children who don't have it to accept that memory."