Sixth grade elementary school students in Tsugaru City, Aomori Prefecture, created copper plate reliefs expressing their dreams and goals in one kanji character to commemorate their graduation.
At Kuruma Elementary School in Tsugaru City, 25 sixth graders graduating in March created reliefs using copper plates to commemorate their graduation.
The theme of the relief is a single kanji character that represents one's dreams and goals, and the children pasted paper with the kanji written on it to a thin copper plate about the size of a postcard and traced it strongly with a ballpoint pen to copy the shape of the kanji onto the board. went.
Next, they used a special tool called a ``pencil'' to make fine dots around the letters that had been copied onto the board.
The work required patience, and some of the children complained that their arms hurt and that they were tired, but after about two hours of working with a serious look on their faces, they were able to achieve scores of "comfortable" and "star". He had completed a relief with kanji characters such as .
The reliefs will be displayed around the school for parents attending the graduation ceremony to see, and then each child will take them home.
The girl said, ``I put in the star letters in hopes of shining like a star in the future.It was difficult because my hands hurt because it was my first time, but I had fun working on it.'' Ta.