Hiroshima: Three Witnesses

by Richard H. Minear (Editor)

Overview

Three Japanese authors of note -- Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi -- survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima only to shoulder an appalling burden: bearing witness to ultimate horror. Between 1945, and 1952, in prose and in poetry, they published the premier first-person accounts of the atomic holocaust. Forty-five years have passed since August 6, 1945, yet this volume contains the first complete English translation of Hara's Summer Flowers, the first English translation of Ota's City of Corpses, and a new translation of Toge's Poems of the Atomic Bomb. No reader will emerge unchanged from reading these works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691187259
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	44 MB
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Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Note on Japanese Names and Terms	xiii
	Introduction	3
	Summer Flowers	19
	Translator's Introduction	21
	Summer Flowers	45
	From the Ruins	61
	Prelude to Annihilation	79
	City of Corpses	115
	Translator's Introduction	117
	Preface to Second Edition (1950)	147
	An Autumn So Horrible Even the Stones Cry Out	153
	Expressionless Faces	165
	Hiroshima, City of Doom	178
	The City: A Tangle of Corpses	198
	Relief	225
	Wind and Rain	251
	Late Autumn Koto Music	268
	Poems of the Atomic Bomb	275
	Translator's Introduction	277
	Prelude	305
	August 6	306
	Dying	308
	Flames	311
	Blind	313
	At the Makeshift Aid Station	315
	Eyes	317
	Warehouse Chronicle	319
	Old Woman	323
	Season of Flames	327
	Little One	331
	Grave Marker	334
	The Shadow	339
	A Friend	341
	Landscape with River	343
	Dawn	344
	The Smile	346
	August 6, 1950	347
	Night	350
	In the Streets	352
	To a Certain Woman	353
	Landscape	355
	Appeal	357
	When Will That Day Come?	358
	Entreaty	366
	Afterword	367
	The Hiroshima Murals of Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi: A Note	371
	Glossary	379
	Guide to Names and Places	381
	Suggestions for Further Reading	389