🇨🇦[4K] Short walk in Playground of the Gods, Burnaby Mountain Park, BC, Canada

🇨🇦[4K] Short walk in Playground of the Gods, Burnaby Mountain Park, BC, Canada
The park at the top of Burnaby Mountain offers wonderful views and enjoyable activities. It’s part of the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area, which contains forest and trails in addition to the park. The area is a great place for nature lovers as well as for people who would like to explore the park, look at views of the ocean and Vancouver. The area is a beautiful and interesting place to visit.

PERCHED ATOP A MOUNTAIN, WITH spectacular views of Vancouver and her surrounding environs, Playground of the Gods was envisioned and realized by Toko Nuburi, an Ainu woodcarver.

The Ainu are an indigenous people native to northern Japan (as well as Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, both part of Russia). At the heart of their traditional territory is the Japanese island of Hokkaido; on the southeastern coast of Hokkaido is the city of Kushiro, home of Toko Nuburi and sister city to Burnaby, British Columbia.
Toko — already an internationally renowned artist, with commissioned works around the world — visited Burnaby as part of a special delegation from Kushiro in 1985. During the visit, he happened upon a mountaintop visit that inspired him. After successfully pitching his idea for a large wooden sculpture, Toko and his son Shusei began work on the project in 1989, using facilities and logs provided by the city of Burnaby. Playground of the Gods (or Kamui Mintara, in Japanese) was completed and unveiled in 1990, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the special relationship between the two cities.

Playground of the Gods draws on Ainu animist tradition, with animal totems representing the gods descending to create the world, while the smaller surrounding poles represent the Ainu’s intertwined relationship with the divine. The overall overlapping associations among humans, gods, animals, and nature symbolizes the friendship between Burnaby and Kushiro.

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