"Scenes with Hanako" is a project to collect records and memories of Hanako, an Asian elephant who was kept at the Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo for many years and passed away in 2016.
The result was a collection of records of the same name, consisting of commemorative photographs of Hanako taken by citizens, a diary written on the day the photographs were taken, and texts provided by the people who provided the photographs. This memorial traces the 69-year journey of an elephant who was the first to arrive in postwar Japan and the longest-living animal in the country, as well as the experiences of loss and rebirth of the people around her.
