A huge woodcut
print Kids’ Guernica was created by 6th grade students of Higashiyoka
Elementary School in Saga Prefecture, Japan. They visited Nagasaki as their
school excursion and learned the sadness of war and the importance of peace at
the nearest elementary school from the ground zero in Nagasaki.
95 students of the 6th grade drew
their own images of peace and they made them together to create a huge woodcut
print. They cut their images on 18 plywood panels elaborately and each 4-6
students printed their woodcut on a piece of paper. Finally, they put all the
18 woodcuts together. Their wonderful woodcut Kids’ Guernica was exhibited in
Saga Prefectural Art Museum.
