VOX POPULI: ‘Abenomasks’ Featured in Pandemic Era Time Capsule: The Asahi Shimbun

I recently had a surprise meeting again with “Abenomasks”, the face masks that the government distributed to every household in Japan last spring.

I never expected to meet them at the warehouse of the Fukushima Museum in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture.

It was stored in a white box that read “Material Related to Novel Coronavirus Infection.”

Since late February, the county museum has been collecting familiar items associated with the COVID-19 outbreak.

Other things in the white box included a postcard announcing the cancellation of an art gallery; A new “Daruma” doll represents amabi, a mythical Japanese monster “Yokai” believed to protect humans from epidemics; And a bottle of sake contains an alcohol disinfectant that was quickly produced by a local brewery.

“The testimonies people give may change over time, but material things don’t,” said Tadasuke Tsukuba, curator of the museum, Tadasuke Tsukuba, 47.

One of the reasons for starting the group was the lack of any systematically organized material related to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Although it was only a century ago, there are many things about it that challenge verification today.

Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the museum has been patronizing all kinds of “earthquake legacy” memorabilia and wanted to apply the same approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the museum has no plans to hold a “Coronavirus Exposition” anytime soon.

“Right now, the important thing is to collect everything we can, so that people can analyze it in 100 years or 200 years,” Tsukuba said.

Similar undertakings are also being implemented in other museums and universities.

As a matter of fact, I have a post that I cannot get rid of.

Distributed by a neighborhood supermarket when the government declared a state of emergency in the spring, the leaflet urged customers to “wear a mask” and “come to the store with as few people as possible.”

Looking at him now, I can vividly recall the manifestations of absolute exhaustion on the faces of the store workers.

The American poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) famously declared that “history is an illustrated experience.”

Material objects clearly convey the atmosphere of the times.

A century or two from now, I wonder how people will discuss our experiences at an exhibition reminiscent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

– The Asahi Shimbun, November 26

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