The lions are back.
Stephen and Stitt are not just ordinary bronze lions, the 85-year old lions still bear injuries from the Second World War and the social unrest in 2020.
The lions have guarded the entrance of HSBC headquarters in Central since 1935.
During the Second World War, the two lions were sent to Japan to be melted down, but were saved at the sudden end of war. An American sailor recognised the lions in a dockyard in Osaka in 1945 and the lions were rescued and restored to their original positions in October 1946. Bullet holes can still be found on Stephen’s left flank. (𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝟺)
During the protest on New Year’s Day in 2020, the lions were sprayed with red paint and set on fire. They were removed from public view for restoration since then for the third time in their history.
The lions are back on public view after first phase of restoration works. Welcome back. Many visit the lions today, taking photos and touching his head and paws.
Full restoration can be done only when British experts can fly to Hong Kong.
𝗪𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐭?
Stephen, the growling lion, was named after Alexander Gordon Stephen, the Chief Manager of HSBC in 1923, and Stitt, the quiescent one, was named after Gordon Holmes Stitt, formerly Manager Shanghai.
𝗪𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲?
1 Queen's Road, Central
中環皇后大道中一號
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💕「愛台灣,我的選擇」第11發: 藝術家Jason Cole Mager 創作「致台灣」系列畫作
「我在美國印第安納波利斯長大,並在當地的約翰赫倫藝術學院攻讀藝術學士學位,後來我拿到芝加哥藝術學院的獎學金,到波士頓的美術館學院就讀學士後學位,最後在紐約亨特學院完成我的藝術碩士學位。當時,我住在紐約布魯克林區的一個大閣樓,我在Airbnb上把房間出租給來自世界各國的旅客,進而認識了許多人,他們總是很熱情地告訴我,之後一定要去拜訪他們,他們會招待我!我也從中認識了一位來自台灣的旅客,在他的邀請下,我來到了台灣。」
「當我來到這裡時,一下子便愛上了台灣,最後甚至還拿了藝術家簽證來台。台灣經驗完全改變了我創作的方式,我開始對許多新圖像和符號產生興趣。研究所畢業之後,我一直想要就家族歷史進行創作,當時我看了很多二戰的老照片,我的家人曾經派駐亞太和歐洲戰場,當我來到台灣時,我才知道有些美國人在二戰時被關在台灣的戰俘營。」
「我住在金山南路的交叉路口,那裡有一個紀念碑,是為了追悼日治時期被槍決的14位美軍戰俘。我有很多作品是關於台灣被殖民的時期,我也深深著迷於台灣人使用印章和簽名的方法,對於台灣人來說可能覺得很枯燥乏味,但我很喜歡!後來我拋下畫筆,開始使用印章創作,我也刻了很多不同樣式的印章。舉例來說,我有一個作品是有關日本人要離開台灣,和美國在其中扮演的角色;也有一個作品是將鄭成功家族家徽和荷蘭東印度公司的標誌合併在一起。我讀了很多台灣的歷史,在17世紀時,紐約和台灣都有荷蘭人的足跡,這讓我格外覺得和台灣有更深的連結!」
👉Jason Cole Mager 是一位住在台北的美國藝術家,他以日本殖民時期為背景,創作了「致台灣」系列畫作,予以象徵圖徽新的藝術呈現。
👉了解更多:http://www.jasoncolemager.com
👉追蹤他的IG: https://www.instagram.com/jasoncolemager
“ I grew up in Indianapolis, that’s where I eventually went to art school. I did my BFA at Herron School of Art, which is part of Indiana University. I had a fellowship through the Art Institute in Chicago, then I did my post-baccalaureate work in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a master’s at Hunter college in New York City. I lived in a large loft in Brooklyn. I rented out a room on Airbnb and I started meeting tons of travelers. People always said, “You should come visit me [in their home country] and stay with me!” Someone from Taiwan stayed with me, and I actually took them up on the offer. When I came here, I just fell in love with it. Eventually, I got an artist visa. Coming to Taiwan completely changed the way I paint. I started seeing all these new images, these symbols. After grad school, I wanted to make work that was about my family’s history. I was looking at all these old photos from World War II. My family served in the Pacific and European theater. When I came out here, I learned that Americans had actually been in prison in Taiwan during WW2. I live right around the corner from金山南路, where there’s a plaque for 14 soldiers that were shot against that wall during the Japanese occupation. A lot of my work is about Taiwan being occupied. I’m also really fascinated with Taiwan’s use of stamps, how people sign their names with stamps. For people here, they’re boring, but I loved them. I stopped using brush work and started to using stamps in my work, including carving my own stamps to create all these symbols. So for example, this work deals with Japan leaving Taiwan and the U.S. role in that transition. Over there is an image that incorporates 鄭成功’s family crest with the emblem of the Dutch East Trade Company. I read a good deal of Taiwanese history and I was really interested in the fact that the Dutch colonized New York during the 1600s, the same period that they came to Taiwan, so we shared that moment.”
👉 Jason Cole Mager is an American artist living in Taipei. You can see more of his work here: http://www.jasoncolemager.com
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japan after ww2 在 Explore_HongKong Facebook 的精選貼文
Stephen and Stitt are not just ordinary bronze lions, the 85-year old lions still bear injuries from the Second World War. Bullet holes can still be found on Stephen’s left flank.
During the Second World War, the two lions were sent to Japan to be melted down, but were saved at the sudden end of war. An American sailor recognised the lions in a dockyard in Osaka in 1945 and the lions were rescued and restored to their original positions in October 1946.
𝗪𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐭?
Stephen, the growling lion, was named after Alexander Gordon Stephen, the Chief Manager of HSBC in 1923, and Stitt, the quiescent one, was named after Gordon Holmes Stitt, formerly Manager Shanghai.
𝗪𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲?
1 Queen's Road, Central
中環皇后大道中一號
#explorehongkong_history
#hk #hongkong #🇭🇰 #香港 #hktravel #travelhk #hktravelbloggers #hongkongtravel #travelhongkong #hktrip #localhk #香港旅遊 #香港旅行 #explorehongkong #discoverhongkong #hkstyle #travelgram #香港好去處 #travelasia #lion #hsbc #stephenandstitt #BattleOfHongKong #WW2 #hongkonghistory #history @ HSBC Building
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Yamato
https://youtu.be/_xPzbYXiWZQ
Battleship Japanese location set
Genesis Sn large location set
The total cost of construction about 600 million yen was spent in the Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Mukaishima west factory site in the Hiroshima Prefecture Onomichi City Mukaishima-cho, and the battleship Japanese location set as big as the original dimension was made. 190 meters from the prow to the vicinity of the bridge were reproduced among 263 meters in the total length. It was chiefly constructed with the iron frame, the frame for the interior, and plywood.
The barrel and the upper part of the bridge of the first main armament tower are omitted. Because the bridge became a multistory building, Building Standard Law was not able to be cleared. Moreover, there was no space that set up the foundation of the main armament because of installation features, and it became shape that only Hazcama is simplified about the first main armament. Those lack parts synthesized 1/10 models that had been exhibited in a Japanese museum and were taken of a picture. It was extremely simplified from the first main armament ahead in the part newly increased for opening to the public, and the perfection was low.
It completes it in March, 2005. It was done until June of the same year, and general was open to the public to taking a picture on July 17 of the same year (admission fee adult 500 yen and child 300 yen). The making scene of the movie of the scene that used the Kei dining room (Did business as it is as a dining room) used as staff's dining room besides opening the set to the public, properties, the panel exhibition, and the Japanese location set was telecasted at the same time.
The period of opening to the public is extended until the period of Golden Week May 7 of the same year while doing a detailed restoration for attendance figures that greatly exceed the expectation though opening to the public was scheduled to be ended by thinking about the longevity of the set at first on March 31, 2006. The heroic deed of one million person breakthrough is achieved on the final day. 1,002,343 visitors every 253 days except the closed day visited.
Dismantlement was begun on May 10 after opening to the public ended. In addition, the waiting time of three hours was generated in the voice to hope for the extension of opening to the public until it visited a lot of sets on the fact and the finality of opening to the public day. However, it became a close being regretted because the installation site of the location set was a shipyard under the stop, and re-operation of this shipyard approached.
When a Japanese museum in Kure City proposed to Toei that it wanted you to contribute 64 points in total such as the main armament body, machine guns, and properties, Toei seems to have accepted pleasantly. Two as of 2008. exhibition in annex in Japanese museum
0 wars that Kanoya is preserved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZzlz9M6dvk
0 wars preserved in Kanoya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WGdGZy02A&feature=channel_page
Two expression large boat preserved in Kanoya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMmcK7LBS8&feature=related
Kanoya naval forces Air Squadron base mark
Oxygen torpedo and propeller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0nAy3US4gs
Himeji naval forces Air Squadron base mark
Glide slope mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ars55ZEH8&feature=channel_page
Himeji naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRHrjQ2BWl0
0 wars of Chiran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLS29e-z2c&feature=channel_page
Fumble in Chiran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqtv41u7Sk
Kushira naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8L5iSlvasg
Naval forces Kushira base glide slope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA06Bccb6i8
Kanoya naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQBT0YQn-4
Cenotaph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMfHzq_qyg
Naval forces secondarily in Kokubu Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2?ns=1&video_id=-1Q5HJuV2Zs
Blue door army Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cVo2DNLjvk
Yo army Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxD7S2AJDc
Three seat surveillance plane remains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQETFV6tWw
鹿屋の保存されているゼロ戦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZzlz9M6dvk
鹿屋で保存されているゼロ戦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WGdGZy02A&feature=channel_page
japan after ww2 在 一二三渡辺 Youtube 的精選貼文
Battleship Japanese location set
Genesis Sn large location set
The total cost of construction about 600 million yen was spent in the Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Mukaishima west factory site in the Hiroshima Prefecture Onomichi City Mukaishima-cho, and the battleship Japanese location set as big as the original dimension was made. 190 meters from the prow to the vicinity of the bridge were reproduced among 263 meters in the total length. It was chiefly constructed with the iron frame, the frame for the interior, and plywood.
The barrel and the upper part of the bridge of the first main armament tower are omitted. Because the bridge became a multistory building, Building Standard Law was not able to be cleared. Moreover, there was no space that set up the foundation of the main armament because of installation features, and it became shape that only Hazcama is simplified about the first main armament. Those lack parts synthesized 1/10 models that had been exhibited in a Japanese museum and were taken of a picture. It was extremely simplified from the first main armament ahead in the part newly increased for opening to the public, and the perfection was low.
It completes it in March, 2005. It was done until June of the same year, and general was open to the public to taking a picture on July 17 of the same year (admission fee adult 500 yen and child 300 yen). The making scene of the movie of the scene that used the Kei dining room (Did business as it is as a dining room) used as staff's dining room besides opening the set to the public, properties, the panel exhibition, and the Japanese location set was telecasted at the same time.
The period of opening to the public is extended until the period of Golden Week May 7 of the same year while doing a detailed restoration for attendance figures that greatly exceed the expectation though opening to the public was scheduled to be ended by thinking about the longevity of the set at first on March 31, 2006. The heroic deed of one million person breakthrough is achieved on the final day. 1,002,343 visitors every 253 days except the closed day visited.
Dismantlement was begun on May 10 after opening to the public ended. In addition, the waiting time of three hours was generated in the voice to hope for the extension of opening to the public until it visited a lot of sets on the fact and the finality of opening to the public day. However, it became a close being regretted because the installation site of the location set was a shipyard under the stop, and re-operation of this shipyard approached.
When a Japanese museum in Kure City proposed to Toei that it wanted you to contribute 64 points in total such as the main armament body, machine guns, and properties, Toei seems to have accepted pleasantly. Two as of 2008. exhibition in annex in Japanese museum
0 wars that Kanoya is preserved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZzlz9M6dvk
0 wars preserved in Kanoya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WGdGZy02A&feature=channel_page
Two expression large boat preserved in Kanoya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMmcK7LBS8&feature=related
Kanoya naval forces Air Squadron base mark
Oxygen torpedo and propeller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0nAy3US4gs
Himeji naval forces Air Squadron base mark
Glide slope mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ars55ZEH8&feature=channel_page
Himeji naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRHrjQ2BWl0
0 wars of Chiran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLS29e-z2c&feature=channel_page
Fumble in Chiran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqtv41u7Sk
Kushira naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8L5iSlvasg
Naval forces Kushira base glide slope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA06Bccb6i8
Kanoya naval forces Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQBT0YQn-4
Cenotaph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMfHzq_qyg
Naval forces secondarily in Kokubu Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2?ns=1&video_id=-1Q5HJuV2Zs
Blue door army Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cVo2DNLjvk
Yo army Air Squadron base mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxD7S2AJDc
Three seat surveillance plane remains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQETFV6tWw
鹿屋の保存されているゼロ戦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZzlz9M6dvk
鹿屋で保存されているゼロ戦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WGdGZy02A&feature=channel_page
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10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMBING (& NAGASAKI)
*CORRECTION: In the video, the location of Nagasaki is off. It should be more on the left side of Kyushu island.
1) Godzilla
Godzilla, the giant Japanese dinosaur-looking monster, a worldwide pop culture icon; who’s been in numerous movies.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, Godzilla owes its existence to the atomic bombs. In the aftermath, with the devastation still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was created as a metaphor for nuclear weapons and their destructive capabilities.
2) The Korean Casualties
An enormous number of Koreans also perished in the blast. In fact, around 25% of casualties were Koreans. Korea was under Japanese rule at the time so there were many drafted or conscripted Koreans in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. It’s unfortunate that the Korean victims of this tragedy have often been neglected
3) Close Call Kyoto
Today’s Kyoto landscape would have been greatly altered, and not for the better, if the Americans had gone about their original plan. The targets were in fact supposed to be Hiroshima & Kyoto. However, the US Secretary of War at the time, Henry L Stimson, insisted on sparing the city
4) The Pamphlet Warnings
Just prior to dropping the Atomic bombs, the US Airforce released pamphlets or leaflets from their planes warning Japanese citizens of the impending destruction. They were largely ineffective.
5) The Little Boy & The Fat Man
These were the American codenames of the two atomic bombs.
6) The American Casualties
12 American airmen were captured, then taken to the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters in Hiroshima, where the American weapon of mass destruction indiscriminately took them out.
7) Go
An important Go tournament was held in the suburbs of Hiroshima, about 5 km from ground zero; a pivotal match up was ongoing between champion Hashimoto and the challenger Iwamoto. When the atomic bomb went off, people were injured, buildings were damaged, and the game came to an immediate halt. Fortunately no one died as tournament officials had earlier moved the game away from the blast radius after coming across the American pamphlets.
The players took this opportunity to have a quick lunch break. Afterwards on the same day, they finished the game. White won.
8) Operation Meetinghouse
As devastating as the atomic bombs were, it didn’t even rank as the most destructive bombing event of WW2. That title goes to the deathly firebombing of Tokyo by the US Air Force, also known as Operation Meetinghouse. This was estimated to be the single most destructive bombing attack not just in Japan, but in history.
9) The Flame Of Peace
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was built in dedication to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack. In the park, sits The Flame of Peace which has burned continuously since 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the planet is free from nuclear threat.
10) The Improbable Survivor
Tsutomu Yamaguchi worked for the Mitsubishi company, and on August 6th, 1945, he was away from home on a business trip in Hiroshima.
He witnessed the Little Boy dropping from the sky and the explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him, and left him with serious burns. But he was alive.
The very next day, he dragged his body to a station, made his way out of Hiroshima and back to his hometown. At home, he finally received treatment for his wounds.
Two days later, despite being seriously injured and heavily bandaged, he informed Mitsubishi that he was back from his Hiroshima business trip and ready to report to work. So, he went to work, as if nothing major had happened.
Yamaguchi was lucky to have survived the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb. However, he was unlucky that he went back home..
..to Nagasaki..
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