Shimabara, Japan
After speaking here in the Mt. Unzen Disaster Memorial Museum for three days, today I finally got to visit the museum. It is amazing. They show a really cool movie (like an iMax) that flies over the volcano and shakes and bumps with the explosions. It shows actual helicopter views of the explosion and eruptions from 1990 – 1995. Another show using traditional Japanese theatre techniques showed about the eruption in 1792.
Then we drove up to see the sculpture that Senri (Martha’s artist husband) made to commemorate the erupted mountain. The photo is of his sculpture. We could not get too close because a family of dogs have taken up residence there.
After lunch we went to Martha’s school and taught four classes. Anyway, we got home for dinner at 9:30 PM. Then Toako did the tea ceremony with martha, Senri, and me until 12:30!
I showed Toako and Taioko photos on my puter and finally went to bed at 2:00 AM.