Sadako Kurihara

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Sadako Kurihara (栗原貞子, Kurihara Sadako^?, March 4, 1913–March 6, 2005) was a Japanese poetess who lived in Hiroshima and survived the nuclear holocaust there. She was four kilometers north of where the bomb exploded. She became famous for her poems about her city, especially Bringing Forth New Life,^[1] which was first published in March 1946. In 1990, she received the third annual Kiyoshi Tanimoto Peace Prize. She died of old age in her own home at the age of 92 in 2005.

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• Sadako Kurihara, Hiroshima poet who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies. Japan Today.
• When We Say 'Hiroshima'. Richard H. Minear, University of Massachusetts. Published by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.

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