Peace; Photo, Photoshop
Title: Peace
Medium: Photo, Photoshop
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“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world”
Sadako Sasaki
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who lived near Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. She was only two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At the moment of explosion she was at her home, about 1.7 km from ground zero. In 1954, at age eleven, while practicing for a big race, she became dizzy and fell to the ground. Sadako was diagnosed with leukemia, the “atom bomb disease”.
Sadako’s best friend told her of an old Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand origami paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that the gods would grant her a wish to get well so that she could run again. However, it was not just for herself that she wished healing. It is said that what made the girl truly special in her effort was her additional wish to end all such suffering, to bring peace and healing to the victims of the world. She spent fourteen months in the hospital, and she folded over 1,300 paper cranes before dying at the age of twelve. She folded the cranes out of her medicine bottle wrappers and any other paper she could find in hopes of getting better. A popular version of the story is that she fell short of her goal of folding 1,000 cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her.
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Sadako Sasaki Wiki
The Official Homepage of Hiroshima Peace Memorial MuseumThe Senzaburu Orikata
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Wiki
Black Rain Wiki
Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of the Radiation-Exposed
What a sad and beautiful story. And what a beautifull photo. Thank you for sharing with us.
yesssss, my Friend, peace all over the world !!!
and inside our hearts too …..
Love and kisses
me
That is pretty cool.
Happy WW!
Peace
thats really cool
That is a lovely picture!
Wonderful photo for Peace! I’ve always been inspired by that story. Thanks for reminding me of it
A very touching and powerful story and image!
Great image!
What a powerful story invoking peace. I hadn’t heard it before. Thanks for sharing it. I feel very moved.
Ufffyah … phonetic spelling of a Turkish exclaimation but that story never fails to touch me. I taught to English students over there … beautiful electrifying art, as usual
This image caught me–then, the quote with the story behind it. May we all promote peace with even a fraction of this determination–what a world we’d have then!
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Love it , the story too !
Wow. Very powerful.
yes know this story well, and your take on it is amazing
Your image is powerful and the story of Sadako is touching.
Beautiful, both image and the quote from Sadako Sasaki. It’s a story that always makes me sad….
i just love your work…
you have inspired me to paint today