This is a painting offered to a
local shrine in Iyo City next to Matsuyama by a soldeir who returned
from the Russo-Japanese War for remembering what happened there in
the battle field in China. On the down-left corner, we can find a
Japanese soldier holding an injuerd Russian soldier and another
Japanese soldier bringing him a bottle of water in his hand. The
painting describes the reality of war but also shows the humanity of
what people have inside. Since this painting was introduced on TV in
several years ago, people working at Russian Consulate in Japan
visited the shrine and also the Russian Graveyard in Matsuyama.
Through this occasion, people of both countries have started a youth
exchange program, and Russian and
Japanese Children have been visiting each other every
year.
