小林エリカのインスタグラム(erikakobayashiek) - 8月6日 02時37分

A Study
福島県石川町
Ishikawa District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

大日本帝国陸軍と理化学研究所による第二次世界大戦中の原子爆弾製造計画「ニ号研」にまつわる跡地のひとつ。ここでウラン濃縮を担当していた科学者飯盛里安は、敗戦後、この地の放射性鉱石から人工宝石を造ることになる。その研究のはじまりは、戦争で失ってしまった陽起石―かつて水晶山で拾い大切にしていた―をふたたびその手に取り戻そうとしたこと。町は千年前の女性作家和泉式部生誕の地のひとつとしても知られる。
いまなお残る猫啼温泉の名は、和泉の愛猫が都へ去った和泉を偲んで鳴き病に臥せったが、湧き出ずる温泉に浸かり病が癒えたという言い伝えから。ちなみに温泉は放射性のラジウム泉。

This is where the nuclear weapon development program “Ni-Go Project,” conducted in secret during World War II a collaboration between physicists at the National Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and the Japanese Imperial Army. Dr. Satoyasu Iimori oversaw the enrichment of uranium in this study; after Japan’s defeat in 1945, his work changed focus from the radioactive ore mined from this area to the creation of man-made gemstones. The impetus for this new focus was apparently his desire to regain the actinolite—a prized mineral he had discovered at Mt. Suisho (literally, “Crystal Mountain”)—that he had lost during the war.
Ishikawa is also known as one of the possible birthplaces, a thousand years before, of the classical poetess Izumi Shikibu. 
According to legend, nearby Nekonaki Onsen—literally, “Cat’s Cry Spring”—acquired its name because Izumi Shikibu’s beloved cat, when she left it behind to go the Heian capital, became stricken with illness, crying night and day until it took a dip in the spring’s waters and was miraculously cured. Nekonaki Onsen’s waters are radioactive, as it is a radium spring.

Exhibition His Last Bow
Installation Photo by Alex Christie

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