Popular Protest in Post War 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.Atom Bomb Poetry CollectionThe Angry JizoHiroshima SketchesGlossaryResourcesAcknowledgmentsAnn Sherif99c9850c7ffbc663daa16feec7b9f1dd71ca3e2e
Legacies of Atom Bomb Poetry & Our Poems Circle
12020-05-26T15:13:16+00:00Max Mitchell5fec7a6574d32fe574c01ba927cd57c749ceca6995plain25742020-06-14T15:36:09+00:00Max Mitchell5fec7a6574d32fe574c01ba927cd57c749ceca69Although the Our Poems group disbanded in the mid-1950s, the group and its publications had a long lasting effect on Hiroshima literary and civic culture. Shikoku Gorō drew on the ideals and methods of the circle for more than 40 years. To the right, his sketch of a kamishibai version of The Angry Jizo told to a huge group of protesters in Hiroshima’s Peace Park in 1972. Determined to keep the inspirational model of idealism and dissent, subsequent generations have produced plays, poetry readings, and produced a monument engraved with Tōge’s poetry.
1media/mass-audience_thumb.jpg2020-06-10T21:35:18+00:00Legacy of Atom Bomb Poetry & Our Poems Circle3Antinuclear protest in Hiroshima Peace Park, 1982.media/mass-audience.jpgplain2020-07-28T22:29:03+00:00Hiroshima no sukecchi (Hiroshima: Hirogaku Tosho, 1985), 156.photograph