Calligrapher mourns loss of family home...(JAPAN)

Calligrapher mourns loss of family home with poignant brush strokes

Calligrapher Kyoko Hirano draws the characters for "family gathering" and other phrases on the floor of her parents' home, which was washed away by the March 11 tsunami, in Minami-Sanriku's Shizugawa district, Miyagi Prefecture. (Yasuhiro Sugimoto

MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--Tokyo-based calligrapher Kyoko Hirano was aghast when she saw the destruction wrought by the March 11 disaster. The tsunami swept away her home.

But instead of giving in to the overwhelming sense of loss, she decided to use the foundation of what remained of the house as a canvas for creativity.

Hirano, 34, took ink and brush and wrote the kanji characters for "dansho" (pleasant chatter) and "danran" (a family gathering) on the floor of what had been her parents' home in the Shizugawa district of this city.

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105180180.html
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Kanashii kimochi. :cry: gambaryo Kyoko san!

Stories like this are slowly becoming "lets move on..been there, done that.." time.

Thank you..