Abstract
This digital exhibit situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar, antinuclear, and social justice movements from 1945 to 2020. Structured around 3 books (Atom Bomb Poems, The Angry Jizo, and Hiroshima Sketches), the site guides visitors through the diverse art that Shikoku, in collaboration with grassroots networks of artists & writers, created to promote social justice: guerilla art protesting the Korean War, poems against the nuclear arms race, a children’s book about war, cityscapes critiquing Hiroshima’s wartime past, and recent performing arts that trace this activist history. Created in collaboration with Megan Mitchell, Cecilia Robinson, and Max Mitchell ('20).
Repository Citation
Sherif, Ann, et al. “Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō." Oberlin College Libraries, 2020. scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/shikoku/index.
Publication Date
Summer 2020
Department
East Asian Studies
Document Type
Multimedia
Keywords
Social movements -- Japan, Hiroshima, Literature and politics, Cold War, Antinuclear movement
Language
English
Format
multimedia
