{"id":1544,"date":"2024-02-27T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/?page_id=1544"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:07:11","slug":"forpeace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/forpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihiro&#8217;s Wish for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chihiro&#8217;s Wish for Peace<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1205\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1205\" src=\"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KV_peace-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1205\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother, Baby, and Daffodils, 1972<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Peace and happiness for all the children of the world<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My experience of war, an experience that smashed all of the tender dreams of youth, greatly affected the course of my life. I genuinely love peace, abundance and lovely, pretty things and with all my being, I abhor the power that seeks to destroy them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<cite>Chihiro Iwasaki, 1972<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chihiro, who experienced war in her youth, witnessed its cruelty, which robs children of their dreams, their hopes, and their lives. She was keenly aware that, in war, it is the weakest who are the most vulnerable. After the war, Chihiro became a picture book artist and mother of one child. Expressing her feelings as a mother, she said, \u201cI could not control the love that poured out of me.\u201d Her loving gaze was not directed only at her own child, but also at children around the world. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War intensified, Chihiro created picture books based on the theme of war. She did not directly show the misery and brutality of war, but rather depicted children striving to live amidst war, the despair on their faces at the loss of hope for their future. Through such images, one can sense Chihiro\u2019s earnest wish to protect the preciousness of life and peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chihiro&#8217;s Wish for Peace Peace and happiness for all the children of the world &#8220;My experience of war, an experience that smashed all of the tender dreams of youth, greatly affected the course of my life. I genuinely love peace, abundance and lovely, pretty things and with all my being, I abhor the power that seeks to destroy them.&#8221; Chihiro Iwasaki, 1972 Chihiro, who experienced war in her youth, witnessed its cruelty, which robs children of their dreams, their hopes, and their lives. She was keenly aware that, in war, it is the weakest who are the most vulnerable. After the war, Chihiro became a picture book artist and mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}