東京工業大学大岡山キャンパスの学生交流施設Taki Plazaで、6月14日から7月26日まで、学生が願いごとを書いた短冊を笹に飾るイベント「七夕・TANABATA～みんなの願いごとが叶いますように～」が開かれました。2本の笹で始まったこのイベントは、日を追って手書きの短冊が増え、最後は5本の笹が計688枚もの短冊と飾り物でいっぱいになりました。新型コロナウイルス感染症の拡大で、学生同士が交流を深める機会はなかなかありません。見知らぬ学生の願いごとを読んでうなずく学生。返事を書いて並べて飾る学生。七夕という日本の風物詩に、外国人学生も日本人学生もささやかなコミュニケーションの場所を見つけたようです。
From June 14 to July 26, an event called “Tanabata” held at Taki Plaza, a student exchange facility at Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Ookayama Campus, where students wrote their wishes on strips of paper and decorated them on bamboo branches. The event started with two bamboos, and as the days went by, more and more hand-written strips of paper were added, and in the end, five bamboos were filled with a total of 688 strips of paper and decorations.
With the spread of the new coronavirus infection, there are few opportunities for students to get to know each other. Students reading and nodding to the wishes of unknown students. Students writing their replies and decorating them in a row. In the Japanese tradition of Tanabata, both foreign and Japanese students seemed to have found a small place to communicate.
