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- Title
- Cartoon, 'To the citizens of Japan and Sendai'
- Content partner
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
This cartoon was drawn by Christchurch artist Henry Sunderland as a creative response to the first anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which struck offshore Sendai, Japan on 11 March 2011. Flower power Henry had originally drawn the cartoon for the anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake of 22 February 2012, which had seen thousands of people decorating road cones throughout Christchurch and overseas with flowers. Midori Saito, a former art student of Henry's when sh...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- March 2012
- Creator
- Henry Sunderland
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1343692
- Related subjects
- Flowers / cones / Earthquakes / Anniversaries / Canterbury (New Zealand) / born digital / cartoons / Christchurch / Sendai / New Zealand
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