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How a legacy of Iranian culture became a Japanese tradition
1402/02/28-14:34
Aikawa Kazutoshi, Ambassador of Japan in Iran, while attending the 34th Tehran International Book Fair, says about his country's interest in expanding cultural and literary relations with Iran through a positive historical relationship and told the story of the transformation of the Iranian instrument into a “traditional Japanese instrument”.
According to the news headquarters of the 34th Tehran International Book Fair, Aikawa Kazutoshi; The Japanese ambassador to Iran met Yasser Ahmadvand, the president of the 34th Tehran International Book Fair, and visited the exhibition on the eighth day of the exhibition.
In this visit, he says: Introduction of Persian literature in Japanese is very good and we are also interested in seeing this done. There is a historical and cultural connection between Iran and Japan, and there is a possibility of expanding cooperation in the field of books. I hope we can expand our cultural relations.
He mentioned the historical relations between the two countries as a basis for bilateral cultural cooperation and added: In Japan, we have a story book related to 1300 years ago; In this story, it is narrated that a Japanese person travels to Iran and brings a traditional Iranian instrument to Japan with him, and the same instrument becomes a traditional Japanese instrument.
The 34th Tehran International Book Fair with the slogan “the future is to be read” started on the 10th of May and will continue until the 20th of May 2023 in the Mosque of Imam Khomeini and simultaneously on ketab.ir.
