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峠 三吉
Toge Sankichi
(1917-1953)

峠 三吉は、２８歳で被爆した。この詩は広島平和公園の 詩碑に刻まれている。原詩は表側、英訳は裏側に刻まれる。
Toge Sankichi was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb at age 28. A poem of his is engraved on a monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The Japanese is engraved on the front and the English on the back.
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【峠三吉詩碑 碑文】

広島市中区平和記念公園（１９６３年８月６日）



　ちちをかえせ　ははをかえせ
　　としよりをかえせ
　　こどもをかえせ


　わたしをかえせ　わたしにつながる
　　にんげんをかえせ


　にんげんの　にんげんのよのあるかぎり
　　くずれぬへいわを
　　へいわをかえせ

"Give Back the Human"

Hiroshima Peace Park (August 6, 1963)

     Give back my father, give back my mother;
　　 Give grandpa back, grandma back; 
　　 Give my sons and daughters back. 

　　 Give me back myself, 
　　 Give back the human race.

　　 As long as this life lasts, this life, 
　　 Give back peace
　　 That will never end.
* I took the above text in print from a book by Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel laureate in liteature).
Hiroshima Peace Reader, by Yoshiteru Kosakai, translated by
Akira and Michiko Tashiro, and Robert and Alcie Ruth Ramseyser.
Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 1980. The above English trans-
lation, by Miyao Ohara, is engraved on the back of the monument
dedicated to Sankichi Toge, in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

—Hiroshima Notes
Kenzaburo Oe
(ed. David L. Swain; tr. Toshi Yonezawa
YMCA Press, Tokyo 1981), p. 20
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