Traces of the Atomic Rays: Paintings in Japanese Ink
| Author: | 山下蘇朴 (Yamashita, Soho) | Place: | 広島 (Hiroshima) |
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| Publisher: | 私家版 (private publication) | Year: | 1986 | Page: | 124 |
山下蘇朴 Yamashita, Soho. 閃光の軌跡 山下蘇朴の水墨画 詩画集 Traces of the Atomic Rays: Paintings in Japanese Ink. 広島 Hiroshima, 私家版 private publication, 1986. Pp. 124
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This is a collection of 63 India ink paintings with Japanese and English captions. Tanka poems with English translation are added. For example, the following poems are included: “Are they the same hands/ Those that pray and those that make/ The Atomic Bomb/ Big enough to destroy/ Hundreds of thousands of men?”/ “Let an the devils cry:/ When a blameless boy is burned,/ Six thousand degrees,/ In the atomic hellfire,/ His spite remains forever” 日英併記。日本語題名は、山下蘇朴『閃光の軌跡』(1986年)。ヒロシマをテーマにした63点の水墨画を紹介。短歌を添えている。 「神に祈る手で原爆をつくりしか幾十万の民を灼く火を」 「鬼も哭け罪なき灼く6,000度原子地獄に怨み果てなし」