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Submitted by Aska on Sunday, 20 September 2015  Page Views: 4978

Modern SitesSite Name: The new tsunami memorial tablets Alternative Name: 津波記憶石
Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 6.047 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Kamaishi (Iwate pref.)  Nearest Village: Unosumai-chō 鵜住
Latitude: 39.329010N  Longitude: 141.900560E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 8th tablet near the Hongō bus stop, near the 3rd one. The typical small pillar type with stone-bird on its top. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Modern standing stones in Honshū. After the 2011 tsunami disaster which destroyed 40% of the tsunami warning stone tablets on the Pacific coastline, the Japanese guild of stone masons decided to build new 500 tablets designed in a modern style.

Pictured: The 8th tablet near the Hongō bus stop, near the 3rd one. The typical small pillar type with stone-bird on its top.

The first one was installed in the pine wood (39.32901N,141.90056E) on the shore in Kamaishi city, Iwate prefecture, famous for its ironworks (now suspended) which has a brave Rugby team, where a pile of debris is waiting to be disposed. The design was placed with a famous industrial designer, the inscription was too sophisticated, the engraved characters “ニ千十一(=2011)” which looks like Rune letters, are difficult to decipher even for Japanese people.

The second stone was placed in the playground (38.76654N,141.50703E) of Koizumi kindergarden & elementary school on the hill in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture. I think the design and styling is more acceptable for the ordinary Japanese person than the first one.
The Lessons from the Tsunami Experiment :
To the people in the future,
On 11 March 2011 2:46 PM,
Tōhoku earthquake occurred,
and the tsunami attacked the Pacific coastline.
Koizumi area in Kesennuma city suffered a severe damage,
So many lives and houses were lost.
The lessons from the tsunami experiment are;
“Tsunami will follow the earthquake”,
anyway to rush away higher and higher,
“When tsunami comes, rush away individually”.
We wish to leave these teachings to you.

The third one was put beside (39.20900N,141.88519E) the old tablets of Tōni (唐丹) village in Kamaishi city. The selection committee for the inscription decided to engrave all the entries, 91 from children and 4 from adults.


The small 4th to 25th ones are in the same simple design with stone birds on their tops, driven on the tsunami reaching points around the 3rd one in Tōni village.
4th=A in Kerobe (花路辺) hamlet : 39.21093N,141.89709E
5th=B in Hongō (本郷) hamlet 1 :39.21169N,141.88843E
6th=C in Hongō hamlet 2 : 39.21121N,141.88745E
7th=D in Hongō hamlet 3 : ? (in a private garden, removed?)
8th=E in Hongō hamlet 4 : 39.20916N,141.88474E
9th=F in Hongō hamlet 5 : ? (in a private garden, removed?)
10th=G in Hongō hamlet 6 : 39.20974N,141.88110E
11th=H in Hongō hamlet 7 : 39.21075N,141.87720E
12th=I in Hongō hamlet 8 : ? (behind a private house, removed?)
13th=J in Kojirahama (小白浜) hamlet 1 : 39.20770N,141.87096E
14th=K in Kojirahama hamlet 2 : 39.20872N,141.86742E
15th=L in Kojirahama hamlet 3 : 39.20917N,141.86649E
16th=M in Kojirahama hamlet 4 : temporary removed? (beside the community house now(2015) under construction)
17th=N in Katagishi (片岸) hamlet 1 : 39.20177N,141.86154E
18th=O in Katagishi hamlet 2 : 39.20000N,141.86229E
19th=P in Katagishi hamlet 3 : 39.20793N,141.85185E
20th=Q in Arakawa (荒川) hamlet : 39.19321N,141.86203E
21st=R in Kamiarakawa (上荒川) hamlet 1 : 39.18877N,141.86188E
22nd=S in Kamiarakawa hamlet 2 : 39.18933N,141.85991E
23rd=T in Kamiarakawa hamlet 3 : 39.19148N,141.85759E
24th=U in Kamiarakawa hamlet 4 : 39.19320N,141.85144E
25th=V in Ōishi (大石) hamlet : 39.18035N,141.89256E
Their distribution is plotted on a map

The 26th one was set in front of Ryōri (綾里) station (39.05407N,141.79916E) of Sanriku Railway partially recovered in 2013.
Tsunami tendenko (=When tsunami comes, rush away individually) :
Remember the catastrophe of Tōhoku earthquake,
Evoke the inevitable attack of the tsunami after the earthquake.
Rush away to higher places as fast as possible.
Never go back, only try to escape,
Save your life with your own effort.
Remember the tradition “Tsunami tendenko (implies “Never care about the others, only try to survive to be the relater who tell the catastrophe to the next generation”)”.
To hand down the tradition eternally, erected herewith this tablet.
On a lucky day in March 2013.
See also our page on the Aneyoshi tsunami warning stone tablet, the most famous tablet which was reported in the western media.

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The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 3rd one which shows all the entries of messages from the survived children. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 27th one in Yoshihama (吉浜 39.14786N,141.83174E), Ōfunato city, Iwate prefecture. The title of the tablet : Yoshihama, the miraculous village. After the tsunami in 1896, the villagers moved to higher place so the victim of 2011 tsunami was minimum. An article on Yoshihama in "USA Today" More inforamtion on the tablet (in Japanese) (Vote or comment on this photo)

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 34th one built in Tsunami memorial park, MinamiSanriku-chō, Miyagi prefecture (38.67760N,141.44438E).
The town in background is MinamiSanriku SunSun shopping mole which includes a replica Moai, can you find it?.
The iron framework in the middle scenery is the ruin of the Crisis Warning Department building of MinamiSanriku town office where Miki ENDŌ urged the ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 33rd one in AkasakichōYamaguchi (赤崎町山口), Ōfunato city, Iwate prefecture (38.67760N,141.44438E). (Vote or comment on this photo)

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 32nd one in a newly developed residential area in Nishiki-chō (錦町), Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture (38.91423N,141.58156E). (Vote or comment on this photo)

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The same-shaped 30th and 31st ones are placed closely in Hachinohe (八戸) city, Aomori prefecture, the northernmost tsunami suffered area of 2011 disaster. The 30th one stands in the precinct of a shinto shrine (40.58678N,141.46257E) and the 31st one stands in the front garden of an elementary school (40.58434N,141.46162E).

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 29th one stands in the football ground of Hachinohe (八戸) city, Aomori prefecture, the northernmost tsunami suffered town in 2011

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 28th one placed in the garden of Onagawa Medical Centre which stand on a hill overlooking the Onagawa town and port. This tablet was built in collaboration with high school pupils' tablet placing project.

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 25th solitary tablet on the slope (=main street) in Ōishi hamlet, 3 km away from the closest tablet around the Tōni bay, is the only tablet which lies sideways without stone-bird on its top.

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 26th one, in front of Ryōri (綾里) station.

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū, Japan The 2nd one. You can see the quiet sea on the right, completely washed away town in the centre where now white plants of debris disposal stand, and on the left a tiny wood of a shrine survived as an island, like other shrines on this district, the ancestors seemed to build them on hills as an evacuation point.

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The sentence in English at the foot of the 1st one and a mourning wreath of clover

The new tsunami memorial tablets
The new tsunami memorial tablets submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan The 1st one

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Re: The new tsunami memorial tablets by Anonymous on Saturday, 22 June 2013
They look like the 2001: A Space Odyssey monoliths. Do they have 1:4:9 dimensional ratios?
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