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Atomic Bomb Literature
is a literary genre in Japanese literature which comprises writings about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Definition The term "atomic bomb literature" came into wide use in the 1960s. 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. 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. 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 Mitsuharu Inoue. The third, whose writing looks into the past and the future in a post-nuclear world, includes Kōbō Abe, Makoto Oda, and the latter Inoue. Yōko Ōta' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Genre
A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, and even the rules designating genres change over time and are fairly unstable. Genres can all be in the form of prose or poetry. Additionally, a genre such as satire, allegory or pastoral might appear in any of the above, not only as a subgenre (see below), but as a mixture of genres. Finally, they are defined by the general cultural movement of the historical period in which they were composed. History of genres Aristotle The concept of genre began in the works of Aristotle, who applied biological concepts to the classification of literary genres, or, as he called them, "species" (eidē). These classifications are mainl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holp Shuppan
is a publishing company headquartered in Misaki-cho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of GAIA Holdings Corporation. , the company has published children’s books and sold reference works. The name is an acronym for "Home Library Production". The company had 28 billion yen in turnover in 1975 and 20 billion yen in turnover in 1977.''Book Publishing Worldwide: Special Reports on Germany, Scandinavia, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Japan, and Export-import Statistics''. R. R. Bowker, 1979. p176 References External links Holp Shuppan Holp Shuppanat Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ... Book publishing companies in Tokyo {{japan-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Hayashi
was a Japanese writer associated with the Atomic Bomb Literature genre. Biography Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931 to 1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation. She started to write in 1962. In 1967, her story ''Procession on a Cloudy Day'' (''Kumoribi no kōshin'') was published in ''Bungei Shuto''. She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, ''Ritual of Death'' (''Matsuri no ba''), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize. ''Two Grave Markers'' (''Futari No Bohyō' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barefoot Gen
is a Japanese historical manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. It ran in several magazines, including ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', from 1973 to 1987. It was subsequently adapted into three live action film adaptations directed by Tengo Yamada, which were released between 1976 and 1980. Madhouse released two anime films, one in 1983 and one in 1986. In 2007, a live action television drama series adaptation aired in Japan on Fuji TV over two nights, August 10 and 11. Publication history Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa created the feature ''Ore wa Mita'' (translated into English as ''I Saw It''), an eyewitness account of the atomic-bomb devastation in Japan, in the monthly manga ''Monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiji Nakazawa
was a Japanese manga artist and writer. Biography Nakazawa was born March 14, 1939 Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan and was in the city when it was Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, destroyed by an atomic bomb in August 1945. Most of his family members who had not evacuated died as a result of the explosion after they became trapped under the debris of their house, except for his mother and an infant sister (who died several weeks later whether from malnutrition or radiation from her mother afterward). In 1961, Nakazawa moved to Tokyo to become a full-time cartoonist and produced short pieces for manga Anthology, anthologies such as ''Shōnen Gaho'', ''Shōnen King'', and ''Bokura''. Following the death of his mother in 1966, Nakazawa returned to his memories of the destruction of Hiroshima and began to express them in his stories. ''Kuroi Ame ni Utarete'' (''Struck by Black Rain''), the first of a series of five books, was a fictional story of Hibakusha, Hiroshima survivors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Rain (novel)
is a novel by Japanese author Masuji Ibuse. Ibuse began serializing ''Black Rain'' in the magazine ''Shincho'' in January 1965. The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Plot The book alternates between Shizuma Shigematsu's journal entries and other characters from August 6–15, 1945, Hiroshima, and the present. The present time in the novel takes place several years later, when Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko become the guardians of their niece, Yasuko, and thus obligated to find a suitable husband for her. At the start of the novel, three earlier attempts to arrange a match have already failed due to health concerns over her having been exposed to the "Black Rain" – firestorm-generated, soot-filled rain that may also have contained high concentrations of fission products and carbon-14, depending on the precipitation's location and time of onset. The radiation sickness is one of the main causes of concern throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroko Takenishi
is a Japanese fiction writer and literary critic. Takenishi is best known for her semi-autobiographical short story "The Rite" (1963), which tells of her experience surviving the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. In 2012 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit for her writing. References External links Hiroko Takenishi at J'Lit Books from Japan 1929 births Japanese women writers Living people Hibakusha {{Japan-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Hands
is a 1960 short story in the atomic bomb literature genre by Japanese writer Mitsuharu Inoue. It depicts the fate of a group of young women who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and grew up as orphans on a small island inhabited by descendants of Crypto-Christians. Plot A couple of years after the end of the Pacific War, two men arrive on a small island off Nagasaki coast. One of the men was sent to conduct real estate negotiations, the other, Hatsuma Wajima, is the uncle of local village teacher Teruhide, who came to see if Teruhide's fiancée Rie is an acceptable marriage prospect for the family. Unbeknownst to Hatsuma, Rie was one of four orphan girls, all survivors of the bombing of Nagasaki, who arrived shortly after the war in the "House of Hands", an orphanage operated by the Catholic church. (The name refers to the pottery work the orphans were given to do.) Two others of the group, Shigeno and Seiko, have been married to local men in the meantime, but are seemingly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Ningen
is a 1954 autobiographical novel in the Atomic bomb literature genre by Japanese writer Yōko Ōta. It follows a writer who, suffering from anxiety states due to her experiences as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the possibility of a future nuclear war, undergoes mental treatment. Plot At the height of the Korean War, writer Atsuko Oda, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, suffers from anxiety states, fueled by her memories and the possible threat of a nuclear war. Her condition also manifests itself in insomnia, against which she injects herself repeated doses of antihistamines. Hospital physician Dr. Fukuda advises her to undergo a deep sleep therapy, so Atsuko moves into the hospital's mental ward. She reminisces her Hiroshima experiences, her campaigning against nuclear weapons, and her housemaid Takeno's offer to commit suicide together, which Atsuko rejects, as she does the option to leave her home country. Atsuko enters a sixteen-day-long deep sleep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land Of Heart's Desire (short Story)
is a Japanese short story by author Tamiki Hara first published in 1951, and an example of Atomic bomb literature. Plot summary The story consists of three parts: the first and longest part, "(1951) Musashino City", takes the form of a diary entry; this is followed by "A Letter to Kiichi Sasaki", a letter to a friend; and finally a poem entitled "For U....A Dirge". ;(1951) Musashino City The unnamed narrator lies in bed and upon hearing the singing of birds outside his window, and contemplates the notion of being reborn in the next life as a bird. The narrator reflects on whether his human consciousness would be transferred to his new bird body or if he would gain an entirely new animal consciousness upon rebirth. Vowing to himself to live in bird-like innocence until death, the narrator then moves from the subject of birds to the subject of his own solitude since moving to his new lodgings. He talks of the solitude as being increasingly insupportable and the strong emotions h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Flower
, also translated as ''Summer Flowers'', is a short story by Japanese writer Tamiki Hara first published in 1947. It depicts the bombing of Hiroshima and its immediate aftermath, which Hara had experienced in person. It is regarded as one of the most influential exponents of the Atomic bomb literature genre. Plot On August 6, 1945, the first person narrator witnesses the bombing of Hiroshima from his parents' house, to which he has returned after visiting his wife's gravesite in Tokyo. Only slightly hurt like his sister, he flees from the spreading fires to the river, confronted with a growing number of casualties and horribly wounded survivors. He meets his two brothers, who are looking for their families, and hears various witnesses' accounts of the moment of the explosion. The narrator and his relatives manage to escape on a horse cart, except for one of his older brother's sons, whose corpse the family discovers on its way out of the city. The story closes with the account o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bringing Forth New Life
is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing.NHK Peace Archives . Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008. 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
The is a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima. It serves the Chūgoku region of Japan with a market share in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Okayama and Tottori Prefectures. The newspaper publishes morning and evening editions. Th ... ''. The baby mentioned in the ...
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