Poppy Day

There were two minutes of silence in the printmaking room yesterday and I learned that it was the Remembrence Day. And that was the reason why a lot of people were waring a poppy flower badge. It reminded me of the August before I came here. I was researching in the middle of a paddy field or a wheat field on the atomic-bomb day in Saitama prefecture and there was an announcement from the speakers in the town asking people for a minute of silence. In Japan, November the 11th is just the day for Pocky...



A sketch of Poppy flowers from this summer. I wanted to sit in a poppy field but I missed the opportunity...
戦地にはきまってポピーがたくさん咲いたという。激戦で土地が"耕され"、地中深くで休眠していたポピーが地表に出て花を咲かせるからのようだ。