SILK flags designed by people displaced by the Japanese tsunami in 2011 have gone on display at Kingston Lacy.

One hundred of the brightly-coloured flags have been installed in the Japanese Garden. The display, called World’s Eye! Is the creation of Alex and Jan Grant from Toozalii Community Arts, who visited Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

They worked with people displaced by the flooding, as well as the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, to come up with designs for the flags.

They were then made by artists in the south of England, who asked the Japanese communities to create designs based on their ideas of what the UK is like.

Katherine Bundy from Kingston Lacy said: “The designs were then brought to the UK to community groups who created the flags, printing the designs onto silk using the hot wax Batik method.

“The results are wonderfully colourful, bright and cheerful, yet link these two different communities on opposite sides of the globe as they faced up to their own personal challenges.”

The Japanese Garden was created by Henrietta Bankes around 100 years ago after being inspired by the 1910 exhibition on Japan. It is ten years since the National Trust restored the garden, and there will be a selection of events celebrating the anniversary this summer.

The events, which run until the middle of July, include talks on garden design by David Burgess from the Japanese Garden Society on June 12 and 26, and with Kingston Lacy’s head gardener Andrew Hunt on June 19.

For those interested in the Japanese art of flower arrangement, Mary Symons of Kyoto Design will be holding an Ikebana workshop on June 13.

And there will be tea ceremonies on June 14 in the garden showing the ceremonial processes behind preparing and presenting traditional Japanese green tea.

The flags will be on display at the National Trust estate until Sunday, June 7.

More information on the Japanese celebrations can be found at nationaltrust.org.uk/kingstonlacy.