The front page of Open page of the book The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City with a woman carrying a small child on her back and holding the hand of a small child through rubble

Open page of the book The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City

The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City

Name: The Children of Hiroshima
SKU: 9781800963009
Price: 8.99 GBP
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空が、赤く、焼けて原爆で死にゆく子たちとの8日間

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A book based on eight days of diary entries by Okuda Sadako Teiko, recounting her search for family in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945.

Based on eight days of diary entries, this book recounts Okuda Sadako Teiko’s experiences searching for her family in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945. Living in Ōsaki-Shimo Island, off the coast of Japan’s mainland, Okuda witnessed a blinding flash and the shattering of her window despite being sixty kilometres from the epicentre. Injured by the impact, her thoughts turned to her family in Hiroshima.

The book follows her seven-day journey through the devastated city, documenting not only her search but also her encounters with dozens of children affected by the bombing.

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1914, Okuda Sadako Teiko was working as a sewing teacher on a small island approximately 35 miles from Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Despite the distance, she sustained lasting damage to her vision and hearing on the right side. From 1960 until her retirement, she taught home economics at a non-traditional high school in Yamagata Prefecture. First self-published in April 1979, her book The Children of Hiroshima is a deeply moving account that has since been republished in several languages.

Size 12.6 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm

Chūgoku

The Chūgoku region makes up the western part of Japan's main island of Honshu. The region is home to Hiroshima and the Izumo Grand Shrine. Well-known ceramics from this area include Hagi ware from Yamaguchi Prefecture and Bizen ware from Okayama Prefecture which also boasts a manufacturing industry of superior denim.