Sadako

During our winter break, we also paid a brief visit to Hiroshima.

From our hotel we took a streetcar to Peace Park, which is very near where I used to live.

Peace Memorial

 

Those of you who have read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr are familiar with Sadako's story.  Here is her monument.  Those cases behind us are filled to the brim with paper cranes, just as they were when I lived here over twenty years ago.

In Peace Park, there is a museum about the bombing of Hiroshima and its effects.  We were amazed by this display of some of the actual cranes Sadako folded.  They are tiny, about the size of bumblebees.