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「原爆文学」を代表する三人の作家、原民喜、峠三吉、栗原貞子の作品と関連の評論が20の外国語で出版されていることが分かった。被爆70年を機に実施した調査研究の成果である。その調査の狙いと過程を紹介して、具体的にどの作家と作品がどのような言語で翻訳されたか、個々に紹介した。さらに、三人の作家に関する評論についてどんな言語で書かれたかをまとめた。
以上の研究は、公益財団法人ヒロシマ平和創造基金「ヒロシマピースグラント2015」と、公益財団法人 庭野平和財団 2015年後期（15-A-352）の助成を受けたものである。
On March 6, 2005, an essayist, poet and peace activist, Kurihara Sadako died at the age of 92. Her friends tried hurriedly to publish a Complete Compilation of her poetry while she was tenninally ill, but she died before its completion. It was published in July 2005. However, her essays remain to be organized and published. She started writing tanka and poems in the 1930ties. Under the influence of her husband, Tadaichi, she was involved in an anarchist movement. Many of these early works were published after the war in her first compilation Kuroi tamago (1946). After the second compilation, Watashi-wa Hiroshima-o shougen suru (1967), she returned to writing poetry, and continued until 2000. She also wrote essays. Her first volume appeared in 1970, and she continued writing up to the mid-nineties, but they have never been compiled. One might question why she was a minor poet and essayist being published occasionally only in local newspapers and rather unknown in literary circles in Japan. Kurihara was a keen observer and a political commentator of her times. The day after the A-bomb attack she hurried to help others. That day changed her life. She was not popular among politicians, because she openly criticized the Japanese government for not revealing the whole truth about the war. In the recently famous poem Hiroshima to iu toki, written in 1972, she saw Japan as a victimizer of Asian countries. She also commented on later events such as the Vietnam War, Tiananmen Square, American-Japanese politics and sending Japanese troops to Iraq in 1992. She has also become famous as the author of the poem Umashimenka na (1945) which has been translated into several languages. Some of her other poems and essays have been translated into English, but have yet to gain wide recognition. In my paper I intend to discuss the trnsformation of Kurihara's works from her first interests in peace before the war, through her sad experience in Hiroshima and her involvement in peace activism. I will extend the materials already published in English by adding ones unpublished and revealed lately by her daughter, Mariko.
In this article I intend to discuss the prewar life and literary activity of one of the most famous writers of atomic-bomb literature, Hara Tamiki. Unlike such famous writers as Oe Kenzaburo and Ibuse Masuji, who wrote about the atomic tragedy in Hiroshima, despite not having experienced it, Tamiki became famous worldwide due to one short novel, Summer Flowers, which was published by 1946, and which was based on his own experience. The novel was a complete account of a reality that surpassed anybody's imagination. However, Tamiki actually wrote some similar fictional stories before the Second World War, being in some way a prophet of the coming war. His characters are often put in extreme situations, facing death or incurable sickness, searching for the real meaning of life and death. The anxiety of human existence was the main theme of his prewar writings. Also, we can deduce from his works how influential his beloved older sister, Tsuru, was. She was a Christian. Tamiki himself never became a Christian believer, but her existence is perceptible in his works. I shall analyse a few of his writings in which we can find all the elements mentioned above. These include Flames (Hono), Christ (Kirisuto), and Prairie (Koya).
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『県立広島大学人間文化学部紀要』第11号に掲載された筆者の論文の続編である。広島への原爆投下に関する作品とその翻訳本の調査をまとめた。本稿の特徴は、第一部に、前回で述べた原民喜の『夏の花』等の外国語訳に関して、新たな情報を追記した。また、海外で広く知られている中沢啓治の『はだしのゲン』の翻訳、永井隆、蜂谷道彦と長田新の回想記・体験記の著者の翻訳を、「原爆文学作家」とは必ずしも言えない11人の作家の作品とその翻訳に追加したことである。第二部に、この11人の作家の作品がどんな言語に翻訳されたかという観点から言語別のリストを作った。