Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku GorōMain MenuOverviewThis exhibit explores the vibrant grassroots artistic culture of Hiroshima, known as the atomic bombed city. From 1949 through the 1990s, local artist Shikoku Gorō advanced a bold and democratic vision for cultural life by bringing poetry to the streets & mobilizing visual arts to represent the vitality, beauty, and complexity of Hiroshima. The exhibit explores a set of influential books, along with other examples of socially committed art. Shikoku and his circles of collaborators illuminated pathways to civic engagement for the citizens of Hiroshima—hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), vets, & younger generations.Atomic Bomb Poetry CollectionThe Angry JizoHiroshima SketchesAnn Sherif99c9850c7ffbc663daa16feec7b9f1dd71ca3e2e
Atom Bomb Poetry Reading Poster
1media/abomb-poetry-reading-poster_thumb.jpg2019-09-04T15:22:24+00:00Maxwell Mitchell5fec7a6574d32fe574c01ba927cd57c749ceca69131Poster advertising a poetry reading with music of Atomic Bomb Poetry Collection at Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, April 2019.plain2019-09-04T15:22:24+00:00Maxwell Mitchell5fec7a6574d32fe574c01ba927cd57c749ceca69
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12019-09-04T16:13:20+00:00Reading Tōge’s Poems1plain2019-09-04T16:13:20+00:00This poster advertises a reading of Tōge’s poems by four actors with musical accompaniment, produced by actor Tsuchiya Tokiko in the same season as the 2017-2018 revival of the play Rivers in Hiroshima and Kyoto.