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This momument is situated on the greenbelt
south of the International @ConferenceCeter,
Hiroshima. The Hiroshima A-bombed Teachers'
Association took the lead in the construction
of the monument. The bronze statue sculptured
by Hisashi Akutagawa, member of the Ar4tists
Association of Shinseisaku, and unveiled
on August 6, 1971, represents an A-bombed
woman teacher holding a pupil and looking
up at the sky in desperation. The names of
871 students and 146 teachers who died in
the bombing are recorded in the register
as of August 6, 1995. It is estimated that
2,000 students and 200 teachers were killed
by the A0bomb. There are still many teachers
and students unidentified.
The statue on the stone pedestal is
2.4 meters
high. On the pedestal is a tanka(a
Japanese
poem of thirty-one syllablaes) written
by
an A-bomb poet, Shinoe Shoda. Tha tanka
is,
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The heavy bone must be a teacher,
The small skulls beside it students
gathered around. |
The student representatives who took part
in the unveiling ceremony pledged that they
would link their hands in a great circle
of would peace, and offered chrysanthemums,
lilies, and folded cranes in fronk of the
monument. |
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