Japan Quake Report – Obata Feb 8 ’12

[Editor: This report and rough translation is from brother Obata via his Face Book page.]

榛名の白菜を七ヶ浜へ

明日の未明に出発し持っていきます。地産地消活動を行っている武渕さんの畑から一個、２kgもある大玉の白菜を１００個いただいたので、清水さんに教えていただいて、今度は仙台の近くの七ヶ浜の７０戸ほどの集落に持っていきます。ここは松島のちょうど防波堤になった小さな半島。太平洋側は津波でひどくやられ、山側は地盤沈下がひどいところです。また、榛名産の安全な生シイタケも持っていきます。放射能被害で今、向こうはシイタケは食べられないのですね。喜んでいただければと願っています。

Haruna Chinese Cabbage to Shichigahama, Miyagi Japan

Early in the morning yesterday (Feb 7 ’12) I went out and waited at B-san’s local produce field. From it we harvested 100 round Chinese Cabbages weighing 2 kilograms (2.2 pounds) each. S-san told me about this. This time we are planning on going to Shichigahama, a town of about 70 homes near Sendai. This small peninsula was the breakwater for Matsushima, a group of famous islands also near Sendai. The section of this peninsula toward the Pacific Ocean was terribly destroyed by the tsunami. On the mountain side the land subsidence was also very bad. We will also take some shitake (a type of mushroom) produced in Haruna which is safe. The radioactive fall out has contaminated the shitake from the peninsula and made it unsafe to eat. They will receive these things with great joy.