Tamiki hara biography of william
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Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
“I’ll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you… . I’ll tell you the real story—I swear I will.”—from Little One bygd Toge Sankichi
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. Different from each other in their politics, their writing, and their styles of life and death, Hara
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Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
Atomic bomb literature (原爆文学, Genbaku bungaku) is a literary genre in Japanese literature which comprises writings about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[1]
Definition
[edit]The term "atomic bomb literature" came into wide use in the 1960s.[2] Writings affiliated with the genre can include diaries, testimonial or documentary accounts, and fictional works like poetry, dramas, prose writings or manga about the bombings and their aftermath.
There are broadly three generations of atomic bomb writers.[1] The first, made up of actual survivors of the bombings, who wrote of their own experiences, includes Yōko Ōta, Tamiki Hara, Shinoe Shōda, and Sankichi Tōge.[1][3] The second, who wrote about the bomb addressing both individual and broader social and political issues it raises, includes Yoshie Hotta, Momo Iida, Kenzaburō Ōe, Masuji Ibuse, Ineko Sata and the early Mi
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Hiroshima: Three Witnesses 9780691187259
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Hiroshima Three Witnesses
Hiroshima Three Witnesses Edited and Translated bt Richard H.minear
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