Nor'West News: June 30, 2022

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Symbolic gate finds fitting new home
• By John Cosgrove
A SYMBOLIC red torii gate once
located in the gardens by the main
stand at Riccarton Racecourse
has began its move to a new life at
Halswell Quarry Park.
Originally constructed in 2012
as part of the annual Japan Day
festivities, the three-metre-high
gate was placed in open air storage
when the buildings around it
were demolished.
Members of the Christchurch-
Kurashiki Sister City Committee
began the process of relocating
the gate from its racecourse
storage site to the park, where it
will be restored and put up in the
Kurashiki garden.
It will become the gateway to
one of the city council’s six sister
city gardens located in the park
area.
Former committee chairman
David Bolam-Smith said they
were first moving the gate to a
more secure site, inside away
from the elements.
ON THE MOVE: Christchurch-Kurashiki Sister City Committee
“There, over the next few
members Gus Fahy, Andrew McGeorge and David Bolam-
Smith relocating the torii gate from Riccarton Racecourse to
years, it will be cleaned and restored
before we reinstall it into
its new home at Halswell Quarry Park (top right).
PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE
the garden,” he said.
Bolam-Smith said since
A torii gate is a traditional anniversary of the charter
Covid-19 the annual Japan Day Japanese gate that symbolically signing, with a range of activities
parade and festival celebrating
the relationship between mundane to the sacred.
long yachting rally from New
marks the transition from the including a three-month-
Christchurch and Kurashiki had In October and November Zealand to Japan, various
263 x 180
faded into history, and it would 2023, the Christchurch-
cultural exchanges, and mayoral
be nice to see the red torii gate Kurashiki Sister City Committee visits between both Kurashiki
back in the public eye.
will be celebrating the 50th and Christchurch.
PHOTO: CCC
SYMBOLIC: A torii gate is typically found at the entrance
to a Shinto shrine and marks the transition from the
mundane to the sacred.
PHOTO: GETTY
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