{"id":1021,"date":"2014-05-28T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2014-05-28T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:00:47","slug":"orandajima-house-opening-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Orandajima House Opening Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"

A more extensive post of our now completed Orandajima House and the Opening Ceremony and Party of Saturday 24th May 2014. I try to tell the story in pictures:<\/p>\n

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\nThe beautiful harbour of Yamadamachi, with a Orandajima or Holland island. The island was renamed to commemorate the historical event of the Dutch ship De Breskens landing in Yamada in 1643. This historical story<\/a> was later picked-up by Jonathan Swift and used as the basis for his book Gulliver’s Travels<\/a>. Wiki entry about De Breskens and her crew here<\/a> (in Dutch)<\/p>\n

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\n(Not De Breskens) in the harbour of Yamada machi<\/p>\n

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\nA view towards the site from the other side of the bay. The building is on high ground, behind the cluster of buildings in the centre of the picture.<\/p>\n

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\nBird eye view from a surrounding hill looking down towards the building. Ceremonial tent in front.<\/p>\n

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\nDetails for use at the opening ceremony later: shovels and watering cans for the ceremonial tree planting.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here worn at work by Nienke Trooster of the Dutch Embassy and Jos van Ruyven, chairman of the Orandajima Foundation<\/a> The foundation that initiated the building of the Orandajima House.<\/p>\n

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\nWhite gloves are cutting ribbons this time (with brand new scissors). Left to right: Shinitsu Sato, the Mayor of Yamadamchi, Nienke Trooster and Jos van Ruyven.<\/p>\n

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\nThe logo for the Orandajima Foundation was designed by the world famous Dutch artist Dick Bruna<\/a> In this picture you can see the contractor installing the sign a few hours before the opening.<\/p>\n

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\nSelfie during the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here are the end-users! Without a thought the children are playing with the patterns on the artificial grass. Some are jumping over the white stripes, some are rolling around and others are sumo wrestling. <\/p>\n

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\nThe field is an immediate success!<\/p>\n

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\nI’m being interviewed by NHK. They’ll make a short documentary about the process of the project.<\/p>\n

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\n Banner<\/p>\n

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\nPicture of the main contractor and I. Smiles all around.<\/p>\n

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\nThe children helping the staff of Rational<\/a>, who donated of the kitchen and supplied the food for the day.<\/p>\n

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\nAs anticipated, once inside, the little reading room at the back of the building is very popular. Here are the children playing a game of Ganzebord<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A more extensive post of our now completed Orandajima House and the Opening Ceremony and Party of Saturday 24th May 2014. I try to tell the story in pictures: The beautiful harbour of Yamadamachi, with a Orandajima or Holland island. The island was renamed to commemorate the historical event of the Dutch ship De Breskens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-events","category-japan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}