@ 81 days until Hiroshima Summit: Mailbox commemorating peace
Feb. 27, 2023
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer
A granite mailbox named the “mailbox commemorating peace” stands on the south side of the east wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It appears to be an objet d’art at a glance, but a post-office worker collects mail, including letters, dropped into the mailbox every day.
The mailbox was set up prompted by the national convention of the present-day Pen Friends Club of Japan held in Hiroshima City in 1952. A bronze statue featuring a boy and a girl holding up a letter sits atop the mailbox. The statue is one of the works created by Katsuzo Entsuba (1905-2003), a sculptor from Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, who created many statues and monuments in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Some passersby said they did not regard the object as a mailbox, because it is not painted in red, the usual color of a mailbox. How about sending a letter with a wish for peace from this mailbox?
(Originally published on February 27, 2023)
A granite mailbox named the “mailbox commemorating peace” stands on the south side of the east wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It appears to be an objet d’art at a glance, but a post-office worker collects mail, including letters, dropped into the mailbox every day.
The mailbox was set up prompted by the national convention of the present-day Pen Friends Club of Japan held in Hiroshima City in 1952. A bronze statue featuring a boy and a girl holding up a letter sits atop the mailbox. The statue is one of the works created by Katsuzo Entsuba (1905-2003), a sculptor from Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, who created many statues and monuments in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Some passersby said they did not regard the object as a mailbox, because it is not painted in red, the usual color of a mailbox. How about sending a letter with a wish for peace from this mailbox?
(Originally published on February 27, 2023)
