The presentation illustrated book Letters to Japan, published for the Year Dual Spain-Japan 2013-2014, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the passage of the Japanese embassy Spain Keicho, takes place on Thursday September 25 at 20.00 pm in the Library Salvador García Aguilar Molina de Segura (in Chorrico Avenue, No. 44).
Paco López spoke Mengual, Berta Höpfner (author of the text) and illustrators Akira Sanz, Katarzyna Rogowicz, Juan Alvarez and Jorge Gomez.
The Japanese embassy in Spain passed Keicho 1613-1617.
On that occasion we celebrated the Year Dual Spain-Japan 2013-2014, commemorating the 400th anniversary of that visit.
At the initiative of Carlos Argudo, President of the Iberian Association Murcia Matsuri Japan, have organized several events such as exhibition Goku with Alfredo Ramón commissary, and editing of the book Letters to Japan, with texts by Yukiko Kondo (Berta Höpfner) , haikus Carlos Olmo S. Bau and illustrations Akira Takeuchy Sanz, José David Morales García, Katarzyna Rogowicz, Juan Alvarez Montalbán, Juan Jorge Cáceres Gómez and Juan Navarro Lorente Saino, the latter also coordinator of the issue.
The book takes as its starting point the land Murcia step of the first Japanese embassy to the West, known as Tensho mission (1582-1590) and fable impressions that this city and its people caused the protagonist, a young Japanese.
The author of the book spine text is the writer Berta Höpfner, Japanese name Yukiko Kondo, a member of the association's Literary Molineta.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura