Bringing Forth New Life

Bringing Forth New Life (生ましめんかな, Umashimen kana) is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing.[1] It tells the true story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of exhaustion in the process. This poem was first published in March 1946 in Chugoku Shimbun.[2] The baby mentioned in the poem is still living today in Hiroshima, named Kazuko Kojima.

Alternate English titles for the poem are We Shall Bring Forth New Life[2] and Let Us Be Midwives![3]

References

NHK Peace Archives Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008.
"We Shall Bring Forth New Life". City of Hiroshima. Archived from the original on 21 July 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
Ammons, Elizabeth; Roy, Modhumita, eds. (2015). Sharing the Earth. An International Environmental Justice Reader. University of Georgia Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780820347707.

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[nhk-1] NHK Peace Archives Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008.

[hps-2] "We Shall Bring Forth New Life". City of Hiroshima. Archived from the original on 21 July 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2008.

[3] Ammons, Elizabeth; Roy, Modhumita, eds. (2015). Sharing the Earth. An International Environmental Justice Reader. University of Georgia Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780820347707.