Sadako Sasaki (Full Flower Moon, Hiroshima, 1955)
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha — a Japanese term meaning “bomb affected person”. She is remembered through the story of more that one thousand paper origami cranes that she folded before her death of radiation induced leukemia at age twelve on October 25, 1955. After her death, Sadako’s body was examined by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) for research on the effects of the atomic bomb on the human body, before she was cremated and laid to rest. Sasaki has become a leading symbol of the effects of nuclear war and has become an international symbol for peace.
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