Cranes have arrived in Hiroshima for decades, inspired by Sadako Sasaki, who was just two when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945. She developed leukemia and in hospital began folding cranes in keeping with a tradition that holds folding 1,000 can make a wish come true.
Monk Yoyu Mimatsu prays during a ceremony to burn thousands of paper cranes, at Daisho-in Buddhist temple on the island of Miyajima, near Hiroshima on May 14, 2023. Richard A. Brooks/ AFP
Cranes have arrived in Hiroshima for decades, inspired by Sadako Sasaki, who was just two when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945. For years, the cranes sent to Hiroshima were simply left at memorials, with municipal cleaners occasionally disposing of them. After blowing the conch, he sits at a table in front of the fire pit and strikes a prayer bowl before beginning chants for the souls of bomb victims.
It was an artistic project, but also deeply personal for Yamane, whose mother was 14 at the time of the bomb attack. They have a dome-like top modeled on the shape of the Children's Peace Memorial and are etched with cranes.
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