Secret Wish

This crane is a small, handmade brooch made by a Japanese artist. There is a beautiful story which came about after the horrific bombing of Hiroshima.

Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the atomic bomb landed on Hiroshima. Due to radiation, she developed leukemia. As soon as she was able, she started constructing origami cranes. She had been told that in Japanese folklore the granting of a wish is the gift to whoever produces 1000 of them. It is unclear if Sadako managed to make 1000 cranes before she died, aged 12 in 1955. Since then, the paper origami crane has become a PEACE symbol.

In Hiroshima's Peace Park, there is a statue of Sadako holding up an origami crane.   The cranes made by this little girl are at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

My origami crane brooch is even more precious now that I know the story behind this symbol of peace.

My secret wish is for worldwide peace and that one day, the greed for power and destruction will disappear.

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind"
- President John Kennedy