Notebook with writings by Tamiki Hara is shown to public at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Apr. 19, 2016
by Yuichi Ishii, Staff Writer
An exhibition that presents a notebook with writings by Tamiki Hara (1905-1951) opened on March 30 in the East Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward, Hiroshima. The exhibition will continue until May 8. Tamiki Hara was a writer who captured the conditions in Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
Tamiki Hara was active as a writer prior to the war and experienced the bombing in the house where he was born, located in Nobori-cho (present-day Naka Ward). From his perspective as a writer, Mr. Hara put down details of the bombing in his notebook, describing the state of the survivors and other things he witnessed at Hiroshima Toshogu Shrine in Higashi Ward, where he fled after the A-bomb blast. These notes later grew into the novel Summer Flowers.
The exhibition includes such items as the notebook that was donated to the museum by Tokihiko Hara, 81, the writer’s nephew and a resident of Nishi Ward, textbooks which contain Tamiki Hara’s works, and a panel showing a map of Mr. Hara’s location after the bombing.
Tokihiko Hara commented, “I’d like as many people as possible to know about the horrific conditions after the atomic bombing through my uncle’s notebook.”
The actual notebook will be shown to the public until April 10. After that, a replica will be displayed.
(Originally published on March 31, 2016)
An exhibition that presents a notebook with writings by Tamiki Hara (1905-1951) opened on March 30 in the East Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward, Hiroshima. The exhibition will continue until May 8. Tamiki Hara was a writer who captured the conditions in Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
Tamiki Hara was active as a writer prior to the war and experienced the bombing in the house where he was born, located in Nobori-cho (present-day Naka Ward). From his perspective as a writer, Mr. Hara put down details of the bombing in his notebook, describing the state of the survivors and other things he witnessed at Hiroshima Toshogu Shrine in Higashi Ward, where he fled after the A-bomb blast. These notes later grew into the novel Summer Flowers.
The exhibition includes such items as the notebook that was donated to the museum by Tokihiko Hara, 81, the writer’s nephew and a resident of Nishi Ward, textbooks which contain Tamiki Hara’s works, and a panel showing a map of Mr. Hara’s location after the bombing.
Tokihiko Hara commented, “I’d like as many people as possible to know about the horrific conditions after the atomic bombing through my uncle’s notebook.”
The actual notebook will be shown to the public until April 10. After that, a replica will be displayed.
(Originally published on March 31, 2016)
