Bringing Forth New Life
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Bringing Forth New Life (生ましめんかな, Umashimen kana) is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing.[1] It tells the true 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 in Chugoku Shimbun.[2] The baby mentioned in the poem is still living today in Hiroshima, named Kazuko Kojima.
Alternate English titles for the poem are We Shall Bring Forth New Life[2] and Let Us Be Midwives![3]
References
- ^ NHK Peace Archives Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008.
- ^ a b "We Shall Bring Forth New Life". City of Hiroshima. Archived from the original on 21 July 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- ^ Ammons, Elizabeth; Roy, Modhumita, eds. (2015). Sharing the Earth. An International Environmental Justice Reader. University of Georgia Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780820347707.