8月6日、行徳功子さん(10歳)は家族と共に被爆し、弟正信さん(7歳)を亡くした。
蟬鳴くな正信ちゃんを思いだす
次に妹の弘子さん(4歳)が亡くなる。
弘子ちゃんまた姉ちゃんと遊びましょう
功子
そして兄と父も亡くなり、功子さんもこれらの句を詠んだ後に他界する。母のみが生き残り、功子さんの俳句を記録した。
功子さんは大火傷を負っていたに違いない。想像を絶する苦痛に堪え、兄弟姉妹のいのちが潰えるたびに俳句を詠んだ。その行為は〝祈り〟そのものだ。
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【Haiku by atomic bomb victims 】
On August 6, the ten year old girl Gyotoku Isako and her family were exposed to the atomic bomb and her younger brother Masanobu, who was seven years old, died.
Don’t chirp, cicadas
It makes me remember
Masanobu
I can’t forget
my little brother’s
pure white shirt
Isako
Then her younger sister Hiroko, who was four years old, died.
Dear Hiroko
come play again with me
your big sister
Isako
Then her older brother and her father died, and finally Isako herself, after writing the poems above, passed away too.
Isako’s mother, the only one of the family who survived, recorded these poems.
Isako must have suffered horrendous burns. Enduring unimaginable pain, each time one of her family died, she wrote a poem. And the poem was her prayer.
Translation © Janine Beichman
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