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Special Lessons In this series, today's successful men and women in their respective fields visit the schools they attended in their youths to enthusiastically talk to today's children about the roads they took to become what they are today. Feeling the Color of the Island DC110012
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･NHK ･42 min. ･M/E & English Version |
Bokunen Naka is a woodblock artist who depicts the spirit of Okinawa. Despite being born on lush island, the children have had little opportunity to come into contact with nature in their daily lives, and so Bokunen takes the children to a forest to play. This is a sacred spot where the guardian deity of the island resides, and it is also Bokunen's favorite playing spot when he was a child. His aim is that they will create woodblocks with the images they have felt with their bodies and hearts, by touching soil, rocks and plants and smelling smells. The worlds inside the children's hearts become reflected in the woodblocks in vivid colors and designs. The power of the imagination is the starting point of the beauty that Bokunen envisions. |
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