Awai Yuku Koro Rikuzentakata, Shinsai Go Wo Ikiru

[Machine Translation] Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, was severely damaged by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake. Natsumi Seo, an artist of pictures and words, moved to Rikuzentakata after the disaster and has been continuously recording the changing landscape, people's feelings and stories, and her own observations on Twitter, weaving words born in the "days of struggle" toward recovery. This is a literary diary of the seven years after the disaster, consisting of carefully selected tweets from the past seven years, "Walking Record," essays recounting each year, and picture stories "Migiwa no Hakoniwa" and "Tobirai no Me ni" that recount those days from a future perspective. This is a literary diary of the seven years after the earthquake.

東日本大震災で津波の甚大な被害を受けた岩手県陸前高田市。絵と言葉のアーティスト・瀬尾夏美は、被災後の陸前高田へ移り住み、変わりゆく風景、人びとの感情や語り、自らの気づきを、ツイッターで継続して記録、復興への“あわいの日々”に生まれた言葉を紡いできた。厳選した七年分のツイート“歩行録”と、各年を語り直したエッセイ“あと語り”、未来の視点から当時を語る絵物語「みぎわの箱庭」「飛来の眼には」で織り成す、震災後七年間の日記文学。