Bringing Forth New Life
Bringing Forth New Life (生ましめんかな, Umashimen-kana) is a poem written in August 1945 in the radioactive ruins of Hiroshima by poet Sadako Kurihara.[1] It tells the real story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of exhaustion in the process. This poem was first published in March 1946. The baby mentioned in the poem is still living today in Hiroshima, named Kazuko Kojima.
An alternate English name for the poem is We Shall Bring Forth New Life.[2]
Further reading
- Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes, (English translation, 1961)
References
- ^ NHK Peace Archives Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008.
- ^ Hiroshima Peace Site Archived July 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. City of Hiroshima. Accessed February 28, 2008.