All 14 panels of the Marukis’ Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa exhibited at Sakima Museum

All 14 panels of the Marukis’ Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa exhibited at Sakima Museum

All 14 panels of the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa have been put up for exhibit. On September 26 at the Sakima Museum in Ginowan City, Director Sakima explains Zanpo Ojishi of the Battle of Okinawa (Yomitan Village Trilogy).


September 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

On September 25 an exhibition of all 14 panels of the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa (Okinawasen no Zu) by the husband and wife artists, the late Iri and Shun Maruki, opened at the Sakima Art Museum (Director Michio Sakima).

This exhibit commemorates the 25th anniversary of the museum’s opening in 1994, and is the first time since the museum opened in 1994 that all panels of the work have been exhibited together. ]

The exhibit ends on December 16.

Although the series is known as the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa, it does not only depict circumstances during the battle, it also includes many post-war and modern depictions.

The largest work and a number of the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa are permanently on display, but other works in the series have been displayed in part.

The Marukis, known for The Hiroshima Panels (Genbaku no Zu), traveled to and from Okinawa between 1982 and 1987, and created the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa by listening to the testimony of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa.

Director Sakima, who had a close relationship with the Marukis, said, “Maruki said that [the Pictures of the Battle of Okinawa] were created by everyone in Okinawa, together. There was a model for each person depicted, and [the work] was charged with the people’s sentiment that we must never make war again.”

Director Sakima called for people to attend the exhibition with the words: “Okinawans who still recall their experiences during this tragic land battle have said [the work] is extraordinary.

I want many Okinawans to please see and feel the realities in the images from the minds by which [the work] was created.”

(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)

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