{"id":9052,"date":"2021-04-11T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2021-04-11T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:36:33","slug":"emiko-okada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/emiko-okada\/","title":{"rendered":"Emiko Okada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Okada.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"9053\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Okada.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9053\" class=\"wp-image-9053\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Okada.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Okada-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Okada-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can only build peace through speaking to each other.<br>The color of our skin or nationality does not matter.\u201d<br>-Emiko Okada<br><br>\u808c\u306e\u8272\u304c\u9055\u304a\u3046\u3068\u3001\u56fd\u304c\u9055\u304a\u3046\u3068\u3001<br>\u51fa\u4f1a\u3044\u3092\u5927\u4e8b\u306b\u3057\u305f\u3044\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002<br>\u4eba\u3068\u4eba\u3067\u5bfe\u8a71\u3092\u3057\u3066\u3001\u5e73\u548c\u3092\u4f5c\u3063\u3066\u3044\u304d\u305f\u3044\u306e\u3067\u3059\u3002<br><br>I received the sad news that Mrs. Emiko Okada passed away on April 9th.\u00a0 I photographed Mrs. Okada in Hiroshima during 2010.\u00a0 She experienced the atomic bomb when she was eight years old, at her home 2.8km from the hypocenter.\u00a0 She devoted her life traveling the world to promote peace and the importance of nuclear disarmament.\u00a0<br><br>Although Mrs. Okada endured living a difficult life, she never spoke begrudgingly.\u00a0\u00a0She describes herself as a \u201cmouthpiece\u201d for the departed.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>\u201cMy sister was 12 years old. She went out and never came back.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Mrs. Okada\u2019s elder sister has been missing since August 6th, 1945.\u00a0 Mrs. Emiko&#8217;s\u00a0daughter has struggled against an incurable disease that decreases the number of blood platelets, most likely caused by the radiation that Mrs. Okada was exposed to.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>I haven&#8217;t met many other individuals so devoted to teaching young people about peace and reconciliation.\u00a0Mrs. Okada was 84 years old.<br><br>Mrs. Okada&#8217;s portrait\u00a0a part of my From Above project which featured portraits of atomic bomb and firebombing survivors from WWII. My limited edition book is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=I1040&amp;i=&amp;i2=\">https:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=I1040&amp;i=&amp;i2=<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can only build peace through speaking to each other.The color of our skin or nationality does not matter.\u201d-Emiko Okada \u808c\u306e\u8272\u304c\u9055\u304a\u3046\u3068\u3001\u56fd\u304c\u9055\u304a\u3046\u3068\u3001\u51fa\u4f1a\u3044\u3092\u5927\u4e8b\u306b\u3057\u305f\u3044\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002\u4eba\u3068\u4eba\u3067\u5bfe\u8a71\u3092\u3057\u3066\u3001\u5e73\u548c\u3092\u4f5c\u3063\u3066\u3044\u304d\u305f\u3044\u306e\u3067\u3059\u3002 I received the sad news that Mrs. Emiko Okada passed away on April 9th.\u00a0 I photographed Mrs. Okada in Hiroshima during 2010.\u00a0 She experienced the atomic bomb when she was eight years old, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,99],"tags":[728,576,574,570],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-hiroshima","tag-emiko-okada","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-hiroshima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9054,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}