Sunrise by Erika Kobayashi

Author:Erika Kobayashi [Kobayashi, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000 Fiction / General
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

1940

It was four years after the Berlin Olympics.

The fire of Olympia, Prometheus’s gift, was to be borne from Greece this time to the Far East,

to the stadium where the Opening Ceremony would occur in Tokyo,

the capital of the Japanese Empire.

It was to be a grand Olympic relay to bring the sacred fire from

Olympia to Athens, then Istanbul, Ankara, Tehran, Kabul, Peshawar, Delhi, Kolkata, Hanoi,

Guangdong, Tianjin, Seoul, Busan . . .

The flame was to be borne by men on foot and horseback,

its light crossing Eurasia eastward hand to hand until it reached the Land of the Rising Sun.

Would the Latin phrase ex oriente lux end up being changed to ex occidente lux?

She looked up at the flags with suns in their centers,

but they were no longer accompanied by those with the Olympic emblem.

All that passed by her were parade floats for the 2600th Anniversary of the Founding of Japan.

It was November 10th.

The streets were dim, the lights shut off by government decree to conserve power.

She waited—

for the Olympics,

for the sacred fire to come to her city,

for the fire, for its light, to illuminate everything around her.

But the Olympics were never held,

all the men were sent to the battlefield,

and the sacred fire never reached her.

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