＠53 days until Hiroshima Summit: ESCI Tennis
Mar. 27, 2023
by Kawate Hisashi, Staff Writer
There is a sport invented in Hiroshima, the city of sport loving people. It is ESCI (Education, Science and Culture Institution) tennis for which players hit a sponge ball with feathers on it using wooden rackets. It is said the origin of ESCI tennis dates back to 1948 when people hit a ball to each other using the wooden boards left in the ruins after the bombing. The late Makoto Unomoto invented this sport. He began to create it after the Hiroshima Prefectural government asked him to develop a sport that children could enjoy in devastated Hiroshima.
ESCI tennis got popular as a sport that everyone from children to aged people can enjoy. In the 1970s, the player population was said to be in the tens of thousands in Japan. Now, national games and regional games of ESCI tennis are held. Mr. Unomoto hoped the sport would bring peace, and his wish is successfully embodied among his sport players through the rallies.
(Originally published on March 27, 2023)
There is a sport invented in Hiroshima, the city of sport loving people. It is ESCI (Education, Science and Culture Institution) tennis for which players hit a sponge ball with feathers on it using wooden rackets. It is said the origin of ESCI tennis dates back to 1948 when people hit a ball to each other using the wooden boards left in the ruins after the bombing. The late Makoto Unomoto invented this sport. He began to create it after the Hiroshima Prefectural government asked him to develop a sport that children could enjoy in devastated Hiroshima.
ESCI tennis got popular as a sport that everyone from children to aged people can enjoy. In the 1970s, the player population was said to be in the tens of thousands in Japan. Now, national games and regional games of ESCI tennis are held. Mr. Unomoto hoped the sport would bring peace, and his wish is successfully embodied among his sport players through the rallies.
(Originally published on March 27, 2023)
