from Kroller Muller Museum

this Kaki Tree has a historical and symbolic significance.

It is cutting from the tree that survived the atomic bomb at Nagasaki.

The contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima has conated the cutting to

the Kroller-Muller Museum on the occasion of

the exhibition IKIRO/Be Alive in 2001.

The artist is planting cuttings from this tree

all over the world as a message of peace.

(Information from Kroller Muller Museum)