Mainichi Daily News
HIROSHIMA — Hundreds of calligraphic works sending out a message of peace were unveiled Sunday as the 24th Hiroshima peace calligraphy exhibition got underway.
Ken Fujiwara, general managing editor of the Mainichi Newspapers’ Osaka Head Office, second from right, and others cut the tape at the opening ceremony of the Hiroshima peace calligraphy exhibition in Hiroshima’s Naka-ku.
The exhibition, which opened in the atomic bomb museum in Hiroshima’s Naka-ku, presented 349 works that received honorable mention and 628 specially chosen works, selected from over 5,000 entries sent in from around Japan.
Third-year junior high school student Yudai Matsumoto, 15, a resident of Hiroshima’s Asakita-ku, and 74-year-old Hiroshima resident Kinson Inoshita were jointly awarded the top Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology prize. In a presentation ceremony on Sunday, the exhibition’s planning committee chairman Ken Fujiwara, general managing editor of the Mainichi Newspapers’ Osaka Head Office, presented certificates and trophies to Matsumoto, Inoshita and other top-placed entrants. (more…)