Statue of Juhani Aho in EIRA park

We went down, to the direction to the sea.

At the entrance of the EIRA residential district,
we found a statue of a man. The man was named,
Juhani AHO. We laughed when we found his name plate
because 'AHO' means 'an idiot' in Japanese language.

We have learnt that 'AHO' was very popular name as a
Finnish family name and that the statue of that man,
Juhani AHO was known as a memory of a Finnish famous
novelist, AHO Juhani among Helsinki people. Was he living
in that district EIRA, his house still remains there?



I have confirmed afterwards that one of his novel,
'Juha' was realized by a Finnish Director of film,
Aki Kaurismäki in 1999. The novel was well known
among Finnish and Aki Kaurismäki had been dreamed to
realize it for long time.


Juha (1999) de Aki Kaurismäuki
http://www.geocities.com/cine_finlandes/Juha.html







My wife took a photo of me with AHO's statue.
A woman in the house in the park had been observing
us and she was surely wondering what we were doing
with the statue....