Sixy Artists' Wish for Peace

   We are having an art exhibition of sixty artists for children’s books. They belong to an organization of those who concern with children’s books, which wishes peace maintaining article 9 of Japan’s constitution.

   The organization says, ’We know children’s smiling faces and their crying faces as we  make children’s books, so we want to prevent Japan go to a warlike nation. We know there are starving children and injured children with mines on the earth we live.’ We wish all the world without wars.’

   We can see sixty different paintings with sixty different messages. Some are very cute, some very serious, and some humorous. Every painting expresses the artist’s idea or desire for peace.  Children who visited the exhibition know some of the characters in the paintings and look happy.

    One of the artist had a gallery talk and an autograph session yesterday. Her autograph was so cute and the people admired them. She talked how they cooperated, what they think about war and peace.    

 To the question “Why elephant?” the artist, whose pictures are very famous and popular among children, answered, “Elephants protect their children encircling them.” Some of the artists experienced the war when they were children They say no children should meet such a future. This artist drew a baby in peace under the cherry blossoms, a symbol of Japan.  

  We organized many events for peace, and the art exhibition is very impressive, and successfully open now.