Kaitaku no Haha Statue

Subtle but meangful

A very simple, unpretentious statue in Furusato Park which still had clumps of snow on the ground when we visited which makes us wonder how beautiful this area must look in winter. Wildflowers sprou...

Trail Blazers の Scorpion が

Original Text

This is located in a park adjacent to Road Station 230 Rusutsu. It seemed that he was wiping sweat with one hand and the other hand, expressing the state of the pioneers.

Working women

Original Text

The bronze statue erected in Rusutsu Furusato Park is said to have the image of many women involved in the development, including the mother of a girl in red shoes. It seemed that I was thinking of my child who was away during work, and I felt sad. It would have been a great difficulty to develop an uncivilized wilderness.

A statue of a mother in a upset "girl in red shoes"

Original Text

It is a statue of a woman I saw when I stopped by the roadside station after skiing in Rusutsu. It is a statue of the mother (Kayo Iwasaki) of a girl (Kimi Sano) who appears in the nursery rhyme "Red Shoes". It is built facing that because you died at the orphanage "Nagasaka Orphanage" of the toriizaka church in Azabu, Tokyo without being taken by a foreigner. Last time I saw it without knowing that, but when I knew the background, I was deeply moved. In winter, the whole park is buried in snow and approached ...

A bronze statue in Rusuz

Original Text

I was able to find it while sightseeing. It is a statue in Rusutsu. It seems that she is the mother of 々 who was devoted to the development of this area, but it is not good as a tourist spot.