The meaning of Inori is a “wish” for something good; it could be a hope to get well soon, it could be a wish for world peace.
Folding a sheet of paper in a certain way, to to make a paper crane, or Orizuru shows a wish for good health in Japan.
As the sheet of paper becomes a crane, we strongly hope for our wish to come true.
In the Inori Project, we deliver the Orizuru with your wish for peace, to Hiroshima, in August.
Join us this time at the “INORI” project with your own Wish.
You can post your “INORI” using twitter from this site, or you can also send us the Orizuru you made.
Do you know there was a girl, who made Orizuru by herself in hospital to make her wish come true because she desperately wanted to go home?
She was the model for the child in “The Children’s Peace Monument” in Peace Memorial Park, Sadako Sasaki.
She was exposed to the atomic bomb when she was 2 years old and contracted leukemia just 10 years after the bombing. Once she heard about the Senbazuru, a thousand of paper cranes, she started making thousands of Orizuru with the paper medicine packets, believing that if she made thousands of Orizuru, she would be able to go home. In spite of her fight with leukemia, she passed away at the age of 12. The Children’s Peace Monument was built by her classmates to remember all those children who died because of the atomic bombing.
“INORI” project started when the nephew of Sadako Sasaki, Yuji Sasaki, a musician, met the singer Kumiko.
Last year, Yuji Sasaki made the song “INORI” to keep the story of Sadako alive. He carries the message of Sadako with the song “INORI”, then hands this song to Kumiko who sings it to deliver the meaning of the preciousness of human life.
We have come to know Sadako Sasaki through the song “INORI”, and have decided to collect more Orizuru not only from Japan, but also from all over the world, to remember Sadako’s wish for a peace.
We would like you to make Orizuru with your own wish for a peace, and deliver them to Hiroshima on 6 August this year. Last year president Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his appeal to the international community for the elimination of nuclear armaments of all kinds. This year is the 65th anniversary of the end of World War Two, and also 55th anniversary of her death. Send your wish to Sadako’s Orizuru, and deliver your Orizuru through Yuji to Sadako. This is the “INORI” project.
You can also join this program using the Origami, inserted in the CD of “INORI”.
We are waiting for your “INORI” Orizuru to be delivered to us.
“INORI” Project
PUERTA DEL SOL Inc.
4F MUR Daikanyama
3-7-3Ebisu-Minami,
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0022 Japan