Toro Nagashi: annual Hiroshima memorial at Green Lake



We brought our niece, Emiri (pictured below, wearing a pink shirt) who's visiting from Japan this month, to Green Lake last night for this summer's annual memorial Toro Nagashi (floating lantern) Festival.

There were a lot of amateur photographers there, myself included, here are a few samples of the snapshots I took as the sun was setting over Green Lake. It's a lovely event, I'd like to go again next year.
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more info about this Japanese Tradition of floating lanterns

Info about Seattle's Toro Nagashi Festival

An interesting article about the events leading up to August 6th, "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb: Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that shaped his decision. " by Richard B. Frank, a historian of World War II, and the author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. I found this article few nights before attending the Toro Nagashi Festival, and found it compelling reading.

A Hiroshima Archive maintained by Lewis & Clark College , Portland Oregon, U.S.A.

Posted: Sun - August 7, 2005 at 04:41 PM        

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