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This monument stands on the greenbelt north
of the East Building of the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum. It was built through the
combined efforts of the Hirohsima Culture
Council and the Construction Committee for
a Monument to Sankichi Toge, and unveiled
on August 6, 1963. On the concrete base inlaid
with black gems and stones, there is a trapezoidal
black granite block, 70 centimeters high,
110 centimeters wide, and 50 centimeters
thick, on the front of which is carved a
poem by Sankichi Toge, handwritten by Kazuko
Miyake as well as an English translation
of the poem by Miyao Ohara on the back. When the bomb fell Sankichi Toge was in his house in Midori-machi. In the ruins of the city he carried on literary activities through a youth movement, publishing a poetry magazine as well as collections of poems. In August 1951, he sent his A-bomb Poetry sa a representative work of Japan to the Berlin Peace Conference. The poems created a great sensation all over the World. He died at the age of thity-six March 10, 1953.
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