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Masuji Ibuse
64?books79?followersMasuji Ibuse (¾®·ü ÷V¶þ) was a Japanese novelist.
At Waseda University, Ibuse was greatly influenced by the works of Shakespeare and Basho; he was also an avid reader of French fiction and poetry. Ibuse went as far as to pawn a watch to try to understand the necessities of writers.
In 1918 Ibuse met naturalist writer Iwano Homei. Homei's literature was appealing to Ibuse and would later influence some of Ibuse's literary works. Ibuse befriended student Aoki Nampachi in Waseda, Aoki was a mentor and a great influence in the writings of Ibuse, Aoki's influence can be found in The Carp, where Ibuse ideolizes Aoki's friendship and represents his feelings towards this friendship in a carp. Ibuse started writing his first essays in 1922, shortly after the death of Aoki. Ibuse often found inspiration in his loneliness and in his encounters with geishas, his first literary works where in the style of prose, he had severed ties with Waseda University and started writing for small magazines.
One of Ibuse's first contributions was for the magazine Seiki, it was originally written for Aoki in 1919 and titled The Salamander, in 1923 it was renamed Confinement.
Ibuse was known and appreciated for most of his career, although it wasn't until after the war that he became famous. In 1966 he published his most well known work, Black Rain, which won him international acclaim and several awards including the Noma Prize and the Order of Cultural Merit, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Japanese author. The novel draws its material from the bombing of Hiroshima with the title referring to the nuclear fallout. Ibuse was not present at the time of the bombing, but uses the diaries of survivors to construct his narrative. His earlier story Kakitsubata (The Crazy Iris, first published in 1951) deals with similar themes.
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At Waseda University, Ibuse was greatly influenced by the works of Shakespeare and Basho; he was also an avid reader of French fiction and poetry. Ibuse went as far as to pawn a watch to try to understand the necessities of writers.
In 1918 Ibuse met naturalist writer Iwano Homei. Homei's literature was appealing to Ibuse and would later influence some of Ibuse's literary works. Ibuse befriended student Aoki Nampachi in Waseda, Aoki was a mentor and a great influence in the writings of Ibuse, Aoki's influence can be found in The Carp, where Ibuse ideolizes Aoki's friendship and represents his feelings towards this friendship in a carp. Ibuse started writing his first essays in 1922, shortly after the death of Aoki. Ibuse often found inspiration in his loneliness and in his encounters with geishas, his first literary works where in the style of prose, he had severed ties with Waseda University and started writing for small magazines.
One of Ibuse's first contributions was for the magazine Seiki, it was originally written for Aoki in 1919 and titled The Salamander, in 1923 it was renamed Confinement.
Ibuse was known and appreciated for most of his career, although it wasn't until after the war that he became famous. In 1966 he published his most well known work, Black Rain, which won him international acclaim and several awards including the Noma Prize and the Order of Cultural Merit, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Japanese author. The novel draws its material from the bombing of Hiroshima with the title referring to the nuclear fallout. Ibuse was not present at the time of the bombing, but uses the diaries of survivors to construct his narrative. His earlier story Kakitsubata (The Crazy Iris, first published in 1951) deals with similar themes.
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May 28, 2019
What Are We Now?
Only in Japan could the dropping of the atomic bomb be written about in the same even tone as the stocking of fish in the local lake. The details of death, injury, radiation sickness and physical destruction are given equal billing with the care and feeding of farmed carp, their preferred ambient temperature, and the use of abalone shells as weasel deterrents.
Is there a way to describe Black Rain as anything other than Zen? What happens, happens. War happens; pain happens; disappointment happens. But the comforting routines of daily life, and the familiarity of friends and family, and the joy of food also happen. The neighbours may get on one¡¯s nerves from time to time; but they remain neighborly. Tragedy is embedded in success and vice versa. All is there to be lived. How could it be otherwise?
The most enduring part of the bombing in Ibuse¡¯s novel is not the memories of its immediate or direct physical effects but the underlying cultural implications. The post-explosion black rain, although not in itself lethal, is a serious issue that impedes an arranged marriage for the protagonist¡¯s, Mr. Shizuma¡¯s, niece. Was she corrupted by her exposure to it? The question is not so much medical as spiritual. This obviously makes it more difficult to answer. It also makes the bomb something central to Japanese life in a way which challenges its phlegmatic equilibrium.
Ibuse¡¯s prose is meticulously delicate. This more than anything else, it seems to me, is his Japan: intricate, balanced, confident in its abilities, its history and its worth. It was less than one hundred years since the American-provoked demise of the shogunate and the economic and social disruption which ensued. But Japan had recovered itself then; so why not now in the wake of the latest American invasion? Ibuse¡¯s objections, for example, to the use of inferior ¡®Western ink¡¯ - with its tendency to fade with age - for the making of a copy of his diary of the bombing is but one indication of his confidence in what is traditional. This, even as he must deal with the untraditional problem of his niece.
Japanese stoicism and apparent tranquility mustn¡¯t be confused with lack of emotion. Mr. Shizuma¡¯s immediate reaction to the blast at Hiroshima is ¡°Why don¡¯t people realize how we feel?¡± He means his own government as well as the Americans. Perhaps because they haven¡¯t been told? He then realizes that the survivors of the blast don¡¯t recognize even members of their own families. Something profoundly more important than the vulnerability of the human body has been revealed by the bomb. Only years later, however, in dealing with his niece¡¯s problem does he begin to understand what that revelation might be.
But stoicism may be functionally indistinguishable from fatalism. At what point does a cultural virtue become an impediment to cultural regeneration? Mr. Shizuma¡¯s ¡°best to leave everything in the lap of the gods¡± may longer be an adequate response to the new world signaled by the bomb. As he transcribes his diary, the individuals he encountered during his escape from Hiroshima come to mind. Why had they been absent from the diary? He doesn¡¯t pose the question. That¡¯s up to the reader, who in Ibuse¡¯s narrative has a superior point of view. It¡¯s as if Ibuse is seeking guidance.
Only the reader as detached observer can make a judgment about how the tragedy has affected both Japanese culture as well as the marriage prospects for his niece. Mr. Shizuma rebukes his wife for thinking he might harbor a theory that implies such a judgment; he wants only to describe circumstances as realistically as he can, however inadequate that may be. Besides, the condition of his carp is a more pressing matter. And tomorrow is the annual ceremony to commemorate the insects that might have been killed during the harvest. Tradition calls,... and binds. But is it the balm of tradition itself which created the war? The dropping of the bomb? The misery and confusion that has resulted?
The tension between Mr. Shizuma¡¯s culture and the realities of his world persists throughout the novel. As an outsider to Japanese culture, I cannot know whether Ibuse resolves that tension or makes it more pronounced. What is clear is that he has turned a profound tragedy, one not just for Japan but also for the world, into a profoundly moving work of art that has relevance for us all. Japan was uniquely affected by the destruction of the atomic bombs. But no culture can be free of their insidious effects, nor of the question of the adequacy of any culture to deal sanely with the power it has at its disposal.
Only in Japan could the dropping of the atomic bomb be written about in the same even tone as the stocking of fish in the local lake. The details of death, injury, radiation sickness and physical destruction are given equal billing with the care and feeding of farmed carp, their preferred ambient temperature, and the use of abalone shells as weasel deterrents.
Is there a way to describe Black Rain as anything other than Zen? What happens, happens. War happens; pain happens; disappointment happens. But the comforting routines of daily life, and the familiarity of friends and family, and the joy of food also happen. The neighbours may get on one¡¯s nerves from time to time; but they remain neighborly. Tragedy is embedded in success and vice versa. All is there to be lived. How could it be otherwise?
The most enduring part of the bombing in Ibuse¡¯s novel is not the memories of its immediate or direct physical effects but the underlying cultural implications. The post-explosion black rain, although not in itself lethal, is a serious issue that impedes an arranged marriage for the protagonist¡¯s, Mr. Shizuma¡¯s, niece. Was she corrupted by her exposure to it? The question is not so much medical as spiritual. This obviously makes it more difficult to answer. It also makes the bomb something central to Japanese life in a way which challenges its phlegmatic equilibrium.
Ibuse¡¯s prose is meticulously delicate. This more than anything else, it seems to me, is his Japan: intricate, balanced, confident in its abilities, its history and its worth. It was less than one hundred years since the American-provoked demise of the shogunate and the economic and social disruption which ensued. But Japan had recovered itself then; so why not now in the wake of the latest American invasion? Ibuse¡¯s objections, for example, to the use of inferior ¡®Western ink¡¯ - with its tendency to fade with age - for the making of a copy of his diary of the bombing is but one indication of his confidence in what is traditional. This, even as he must deal with the untraditional problem of his niece.
Japanese stoicism and apparent tranquility mustn¡¯t be confused with lack of emotion. Mr. Shizuma¡¯s immediate reaction to the blast at Hiroshima is ¡°Why don¡¯t people realize how we feel?¡± He means his own government as well as the Americans. Perhaps because they haven¡¯t been told? He then realizes that the survivors of the blast don¡¯t recognize even members of their own families. Something profoundly more important than the vulnerability of the human body has been revealed by the bomb. Only years later, however, in dealing with his niece¡¯s problem does he begin to understand what that revelation might be.
But stoicism may be functionally indistinguishable from fatalism. At what point does a cultural virtue become an impediment to cultural regeneration? Mr. Shizuma¡¯s ¡°best to leave everything in the lap of the gods¡± may longer be an adequate response to the new world signaled by the bomb. As he transcribes his diary, the individuals he encountered during his escape from Hiroshima come to mind. Why had they been absent from the diary? He doesn¡¯t pose the question. That¡¯s up to the reader, who in Ibuse¡¯s narrative has a superior point of view. It¡¯s as if Ibuse is seeking guidance.
Only the reader as detached observer can make a judgment about how the tragedy has affected both Japanese culture as well as the marriage prospects for his niece. Mr. Shizuma rebukes his wife for thinking he might harbor a theory that implies such a judgment; he wants only to describe circumstances as realistically as he can, however inadequate that may be. Besides, the condition of his carp is a more pressing matter. And tomorrow is the annual ceremony to commemorate the insects that might have been killed during the harvest. Tradition calls,... and binds. But is it the balm of tradition itself which created the war? The dropping of the bomb? The misery and confusion that has resulted?
The tension between Mr. Shizuma¡¯s culture and the realities of his world persists throughout the novel. As an outsider to Japanese culture, I cannot know whether Ibuse resolves that tension or makes it more pronounced. What is clear is that he has turned a profound tragedy, one not just for Japan but also for the world, into a profoundly moving work of art that has relevance for us all. Japan was uniquely affected by the destruction of the atomic bombs. But no culture can be free of their insidious effects, nor of the question of the adequacy of any culture to deal sanely with the power it has at its disposal.
April 4, 2024
A sensitive handling of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
[This could be the text for Christopher Nolan's followup to "Oppenheimer." He could do it in the style of the greats of Japanese cinema. Ozu would work. In black and white, of course. ¡ª My thanks to alex for telling me Shohei Imamura had already done this. I was thinking about an English-language version though with an all-Japanese cast.]
The story starts one year after the bombing with the main character, Shigematsu, pondering the future of his niece Yasuko's marriage prospects. There is a persistent rumor that Yasuko was in Hiroshima City on the day of the bombing and now suffers from radiation sickness. Shigematsu, frustrated, as a means of correcting the inaccuracy, suggests a perusal of Yasuko's diary for Aug. 6, 1945--the day of the bombing--and the days thereafter. It is through this device that the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is told.
The suffering of the people is simply unfathomable. The bean counter's trade is opprobrious here, but what other measure shall we use? The number killed varies but a mid-range estimate is well over 100,000 within 24 hours of the air raid. That does not include those who suffered with radiation sickness for years afterward. One simply cannot gets one's mind around such suffering. Naked blackened figures face down in the street, literally melted into the asphalt. (This image, by the way, I'm convinced borrowed for his novel .) The walking wounded with great sheaths of black skin hanging on them; the suppurating lice-ridden bedsores; the dead piled up like cord wood.
At one point author Ibuse writes "In olden times, people used to say that in an area badly ravaged by war it took a century to repair the moral damage done to the inhabitants...." The correctness of this statement stings the brain. There is no plot since there was no plot to the bombing as it affected those on the ground. There is a shifting from the relatively orderly present of a year after the bombing, to the recollected past which is all confusion, mass death, cremation pyres all up and down the river shore, and the poor citizens of Hiroshima not understanding what has hit them. Repeatedly the survivors return to the blast zone (a true Ground Zero, as opposed to the metaphorical one in Lower Manhattan) without understanding how such exposure is harming them. One can see why the Americans said nothing in the aftermath, negotiating the end of hostilities as they were, but the cold discipline of doing that!
[This could be the text for Christopher Nolan's followup to "Oppenheimer." He could do it in the style of the greats of Japanese cinema. Ozu would work. In black and white, of course. ¡ª My thanks to alex for telling me Shohei Imamura had already done this. I was thinking about an English-language version though with an all-Japanese cast.]
The story starts one year after the bombing with the main character, Shigematsu, pondering the future of his niece Yasuko's marriage prospects. There is a persistent rumor that Yasuko was in Hiroshima City on the day of the bombing and now suffers from radiation sickness. Shigematsu, frustrated, as a means of correcting the inaccuracy, suggests a perusal of Yasuko's diary for Aug. 6, 1945--the day of the bombing--and the days thereafter. It is through this device that the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is told.
The suffering of the people is simply unfathomable. The bean counter's trade is opprobrious here, but what other measure shall we use? The number killed varies but a mid-range estimate is well over 100,000 within 24 hours of the air raid. That does not include those who suffered with radiation sickness for years afterward. One simply cannot gets one's mind around such suffering. Naked blackened figures face down in the street, literally melted into the asphalt. (This image, by the way, I'm convinced borrowed for his novel .) The walking wounded with great sheaths of black skin hanging on them; the suppurating lice-ridden bedsores; the dead piled up like cord wood.
At one point author Ibuse writes "In olden times, people used to say that in an area badly ravaged by war it took a century to repair the moral damage done to the inhabitants...." The correctness of this statement stings the brain. There is no plot since there was no plot to the bombing as it affected those on the ground. There is a shifting from the relatively orderly present of a year after the bombing, to the recollected past which is all confusion, mass death, cremation pyres all up and down the river shore, and the poor citizens of Hiroshima not understanding what has hit them. Repeatedly the survivors return to the blast zone (a true Ground Zero, as opposed to the metaphorical one in Lower Manhattan) without understanding how such exposure is harming them. One can see why the Americans said nothing in the aftermath, negotiating the end of hostilities as they were, but the cold discipline of doing that!
April 23, 2021
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April 20, 2011
Sick birds hide their illnesses from other birds as well as from predators. The people in Black Rain with radiation sickness in Hiroshima might have taken their cue from birds... I couldn't help but think of birds as I read about how the mutual horror turned into a bring out your dead collective mistrust and disgust. It occured to me that the suspicion and paranoia were acting to shove them out as if they were already dead. The mushroom cloud Alice ate turned everything bigger and littler and nothing made any sense.
John Bester wrote in his introduction to his translation of Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain that he had "considerable doubts". "Could the author possibly have avoided stridency, sentimentality, melodrama, monotony, and all the other pitfalls? Could such a theme yeild, in the widest sense, beauty? Could it, in short, be fashioned into a work of art?"
I found it interesting to learn that Shigematsu Shizuma's journal in Black Rain was a real journal. So were other people's accounts that are in here. I really like that Ibuse took all of these diaries and interviews as personal (for want of a better word. It's more than that) insights into the overhead, undergrowth, underbelly, kangaroos pouch of death, misery, upheavel, endings, beginnings. It's even weirdly twisted smile funny, wistful, kinda nostalgic for these kinda interludes during the war. Long ago in childhood. Old Japan. Futures they aren't going to have... (I don't read enough. The only sort of history book/memoir like this that I can think of that does what Black Rain does is Nicolas Gage's Eleni. I love books that are about EVERYTHING.)
Black Rain is pretty huge. First, though, the birds. Victims of radiation sickness who tried to work would die very soon after (their hair and teeth would fall out, soon accompanied by other grossness). The only prescribed medication was plenty of rest. You'd think that after this massive thing like an atomic bomb people would remember how bad it was and feel bad for the people who had it? The tears of mourning turned into bitter tears that turned into crocodile tears and passive aggressive mutterings. Shizuma and his friend are ridiculed as "lazy" for taking it easy and going fishing. (A simple walk would be too unseemly.) It was weirdly funny when the invent a money making scheme with fish to "cover up" their lazy activity of fishing. I learned a lot about old fishing techniques. I fished a lot as a little girl in Alabama. It was very different from this, for sure.
Neice Yasuko cannot find a husband because of rumors that she has the sickness. Shizuma starts his journal for effort to show a prospective match (and the meddling go-between) that she was not in Hiroshima then. She was in the shower of black rain, however, when going back to look for her family. She was not the only one who went in there to find people. Yelling at my book did not stop them (why not?! Don't go in there!). Shizuma starts to get into writing his own diary of what happened. His wife says: "I expect it's because when you write you're too eager to work in your own theories." I felt a weird kind of warmth from his writing his journal. Like the feeling of yelling "Don't go in there!" to my book and his writing about it after the fact could possibly do anything to stop them...
There was weird kinds of twistedness, too. It had been war time, after all. People were afraid of each other. One scholar bent himself into doing everything for everyone else in a desperate attempt to stave off betrayal (his wife had been turned in for being friendly with Americans).
"I hated war. Who cared, after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a "just" war!"
One point Shizuma admits to hoping that Hitler would win the war, for their sakes. Another time he feels it was all stupid. War is pointless? Yes, I agree. But I wasn't reading for politics... The internal turtle shell and external hells. The musings over the fear and hunger, like a kind of mental spark... Like anyone is going to work out what the hell it MEANS when that shit is going on? It happened and it was fucking awful. I loved about Black Rain that it was all the way through, inside and out.
"Still we came upon corpses, and yet more corpses. Driven by the heat and trapped by the smoke, the had flung themselves face down in their suffering, only to be unable to rise again and to suffocate where they lay. So much was certain from the experiences of our own flight. Had not we ourselves hovered on the brink of a similar fate?"
"There came the familiar drone of a B-29. It came from thesouth, and when it seemed to be directly above I involuntarily glanced up at the sky. For a moment, I had a glimpse of something that looked like a captive balloon drifting lazily downwards in the sky beyond the barracks roof. The next moment, there was a white flash like lightning, or the light from a great mass of magnesium ignited all at once. I felt a wave of searing heat. At the same time, there was a terrifying roar, and that was all I knew. What happened after that, or how much time passed, I do not know. Struck down by the blast, I may actually have lost consciousness."
"With great difficulty, I got a seat in the rearmost car of the special troop train. It was a train of the same Geibi Line that ran through my home in the country, and I had traveled back and forth on it a number of times during my middle school days. The sound of its whistle cheered me immensely. Somehow, I felt I could not possibly die now that I had heard that well-remembered sound from the past. The emotion that flooded me at the prospect of a time free from the sleeplessness, strain, and apprehension of the past three days made the three-hour journey seem excessively long and the train excessively tardy."
Nostalgia for the past? I couldn't remember why I had marked off this passage for myself. That's probably it... (Great, Mariel.)
"The trouble was that all of us, spiritually, were bound hand and foot, and fiercely suppressed every urge to express anxiety, let alone dissastisfaction. Such was the power of the state."
Here is a list of one day's rations of foodstuffs, apart from the basic rice or rice substitute. Actually, this was the rations for the eleven families in our neighborhood association, thirty-two people altogether, so many of the items were difficult to split up, and we used to divide them up among two or three families at a time:
One cake of bean curd
One sardine or small horse-mackerel
Two Chinese cabbages
Five or six carrots, giant radishes, leeks, burdock roots, bundles of spinach, or marrows
Four or five eggplants
Half a pumpkin
I was very interested in all of the food parts of the story. The survivalist stuff, like how they dug for clams under the bridge, or purchased from the blackmarket. If I investigated I'm sure I'd find someone on amazon bitching that their story wasn't important because they could get food from the blackmarket. I'm still peeved about amazon reviews of Dazai's The Setting Sun. "They were richer than most who cares? whine whine whine!" Screw that. Survivalist stuff! Did you know that eating parched rise is what the ancients used to eat on long journeys? If I ever have to walk a long as way with no water, I'm bringing parched rice to munch on along the way (if hobbity second breakfasts aren't available, that is).
It also struck me that people were still concerned about keeping hold of their money after what happened. People. Sighs. (That's a good and bad sigh, I guess.)
Like I said, surviving. More than surviving: keeping damned humanity and not treating people (or history) that happened like it is dead. I don't want them to hide it, not the weirdness or whichever direction it is gonna twist (past or future). Everything.
John Bester wrote in his introduction to his translation of Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain that he had "considerable doubts". "Could the author possibly have avoided stridency, sentimentality, melodrama, monotony, and all the other pitfalls? Could such a theme yeild, in the widest sense, beauty? Could it, in short, be fashioned into a work of art?"
I found it interesting to learn that Shigematsu Shizuma's journal in Black Rain was a real journal. So were other people's accounts that are in here. I really like that Ibuse took all of these diaries and interviews as personal (for want of a better word. It's more than that) insights into the overhead, undergrowth, underbelly, kangaroos pouch of death, misery, upheavel, endings, beginnings. It's even weirdly twisted smile funny, wistful, kinda nostalgic for these kinda interludes during the war. Long ago in childhood. Old Japan. Futures they aren't going to have... (I don't read enough. The only sort of history book/memoir like this that I can think of that does what Black Rain does is Nicolas Gage's Eleni. I love books that are about EVERYTHING.)
Black Rain is pretty huge. First, though, the birds. Victims of radiation sickness who tried to work would die very soon after (their hair and teeth would fall out, soon accompanied by other grossness). The only prescribed medication was plenty of rest. You'd think that after this massive thing like an atomic bomb people would remember how bad it was and feel bad for the people who had it? The tears of mourning turned into bitter tears that turned into crocodile tears and passive aggressive mutterings. Shizuma and his friend are ridiculed as "lazy" for taking it easy and going fishing. (A simple walk would be too unseemly.) It was weirdly funny when the invent a money making scheme with fish to "cover up" their lazy activity of fishing. I learned a lot about old fishing techniques. I fished a lot as a little girl in Alabama. It was very different from this, for sure.
Neice Yasuko cannot find a husband because of rumors that she has the sickness. Shizuma starts his journal for effort to show a prospective match (and the meddling go-between) that she was not in Hiroshima then. She was in the shower of black rain, however, when going back to look for her family. She was not the only one who went in there to find people. Yelling at my book did not stop them (why not?! Don't go in there!). Shizuma starts to get into writing his own diary of what happened. His wife says: "I expect it's because when you write you're too eager to work in your own theories." I felt a weird kind of warmth from his writing his journal. Like the feeling of yelling "Don't go in there!" to my book and his writing about it after the fact could possibly do anything to stop them...
There was weird kinds of twistedness, too. It had been war time, after all. People were afraid of each other. One scholar bent himself into doing everything for everyone else in a desperate attempt to stave off betrayal (his wife had been turned in for being friendly with Americans).
"I hated war. Who cared, after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a "just" war!"
One point Shizuma admits to hoping that Hitler would win the war, for their sakes. Another time he feels it was all stupid. War is pointless? Yes, I agree. But I wasn't reading for politics... The internal turtle shell and external hells. The musings over the fear and hunger, like a kind of mental spark... Like anyone is going to work out what the hell it MEANS when that shit is going on? It happened and it was fucking awful. I loved about Black Rain that it was all the way through, inside and out.
"Still we came upon corpses, and yet more corpses. Driven by the heat and trapped by the smoke, the had flung themselves face down in their suffering, only to be unable to rise again and to suffocate where they lay. So much was certain from the experiences of our own flight. Had not we ourselves hovered on the brink of a similar fate?"
"There came the familiar drone of a B-29. It came from thesouth, and when it seemed to be directly above I involuntarily glanced up at the sky. For a moment, I had a glimpse of something that looked like a captive balloon drifting lazily downwards in the sky beyond the barracks roof. The next moment, there was a white flash like lightning, or the light from a great mass of magnesium ignited all at once. I felt a wave of searing heat. At the same time, there was a terrifying roar, and that was all I knew. What happened after that, or how much time passed, I do not know. Struck down by the blast, I may actually have lost consciousness."
"With great difficulty, I got a seat in the rearmost car of the special troop train. It was a train of the same Geibi Line that ran through my home in the country, and I had traveled back and forth on it a number of times during my middle school days. The sound of its whistle cheered me immensely. Somehow, I felt I could not possibly die now that I had heard that well-remembered sound from the past. The emotion that flooded me at the prospect of a time free from the sleeplessness, strain, and apprehension of the past three days made the three-hour journey seem excessively long and the train excessively tardy."
Nostalgia for the past? I couldn't remember why I had marked off this passage for myself. That's probably it... (Great, Mariel.)
"The trouble was that all of us, spiritually, were bound hand and foot, and fiercely suppressed every urge to express anxiety, let alone dissastisfaction. Such was the power of the state."
Here is a list of one day's rations of foodstuffs, apart from the basic rice or rice substitute. Actually, this was the rations for the eleven families in our neighborhood association, thirty-two people altogether, so many of the items were difficult to split up, and we used to divide them up among two or three families at a time:
One cake of bean curd
One sardine or small horse-mackerel
Two Chinese cabbages
Five or six carrots, giant radishes, leeks, burdock roots, bundles of spinach, or marrows
Four or five eggplants
Half a pumpkin
I was very interested in all of the food parts of the story. The survivalist stuff, like how they dug for clams under the bridge, or purchased from the blackmarket. If I investigated I'm sure I'd find someone on amazon bitching that their story wasn't important because they could get food from the blackmarket. I'm still peeved about amazon reviews of Dazai's The Setting Sun. "They were richer than most who cares? whine whine whine!" Screw that. Survivalist stuff! Did you know that eating parched rise is what the ancients used to eat on long journeys? If I ever have to walk a long as way with no water, I'm bringing parched rice to munch on along the way (if hobbity second breakfasts aren't available, that is).
It also struck me that people were still concerned about keeping hold of their money after what happened. People. Sighs. (That's a good and bad sigh, I guess.)
Like I said, surviving. More than surviving: keeping damned humanity and not treating people (or history) that happened like it is dead. I don't want them to hide it, not the weirdness or whichever direction it is gonna twist (past or future). Everything.
August 22, 2018
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November 18, 2024
¡°So that¡¯s what it meant¡ª¡± I said, ¡°the slogan about the war only just beginning.¡±
¡°Yes,¡± said Sat¨, ¡°the idea is to go ahead with the grand policy of a wealthy and militarily powerful nation launched over half a century ago. It¡¯s not for you or me to assume that this is a kind of tragic finale. This is precisely what we¡¯ve been brought up for. It¡¯s fate.¡±
With the uncle¡¯s wish to get her niece Yasuko married before they die, this could almost be an Ozu film (if it were a film). But of course, it can¡¯t be. The calm is shattered by ¡°countless cries for succor¡ªthe voice of those hundreds of thousands of souls¡ªseemingly welling up from beneath the earth,¡± and Yasuko can¡¯t be married¡ªshe was pelted by the ¡°black rain¡± (¡°streaks the thickness of a fountain pen¡±) as she watched the mushroom cloud rise into the sky.
One of the most remarkable things about the book is how true Ibuse is to the experience of the bomb as it was being lived¡ªin its concreteness and specificity¡ªthe blinding flash, the mushroom cloud (¡°in ever-changing shades of red, purple, lapis lazuli, or green¡±), the black rain (radioactive fallout blackened with carbon ash)¡ªonly gradually organizing it into a pattern of coherence. (In fact, the main character only learns to call it an ¡°atomic bomb¡± in the penultimate chapter.) Some think it¡¯s a poison bomb; others, like Yasuko, a new type of oil bomb. But none can explain the people walking like scarecrows, their flesh falling off their bones in chunks, or the people turned to carbon statues of themselves, frozen in the last posture of life, or the floating carpet of corpses covering the ?ta river (not all the effects of the bomb were instantaneous: most people were cut to ribbons by flying glass, or crushed by collapsing buildings or else trapped until the firestorms sweeping through the city put an end to their screams)¡ªnone can explain why even those who appeared to have survived the flash are being struck down by a mysterious sickness¡
The book is a cacophony of voices, a mosaic of journal entries and fragments (adapted from testimony from real-life Hiroshima survivors)¡ªa form that allows for multiple perspectives (it¡¯s like gazing at a marble statue: you have to turn around it; in the end you get the picture) and time shifts (this is a past that isn¡¯t past but the vivid present: ¡°When she first told me about it, in the living room, there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky¡±). It paints a harrowing picture of that fateful day of August 6, 1945, when, in a single instant, with a single bomb, a city of 340,000 people was transformed into an inferno such as even Dante could never have dreamed, and its aftermath.
¡°Yes,¡± said Sat¨, ¡°the idea is to go ahead with the grand policy of a wealthy and militarily powerful nation launched over half a century ago. It¡¯s not for you or me to assume that this is a kind of tragic finale. This is precisely what we¡¯ve been brought up for. It¡¯s fate.¡±
With the uncle¡¯s wish to get her niece Yasuko married before they die, this could almost be an Ozu film (if it were a film). But of course, it can¡¯t be. The calm is shattered by ¡°countless cries for succor¡ªthe voice of those hundreds of thousands of souls¡ªseemingly welling up from beneath the earth,¡± and Yasuko can¡¯t be married¡ªshe was pelted by the ¡°black rain¡± (¡°streaks the thickness of a fountain pen¡±) as she watched the mushroom cloud rise into the sky.
One of the most remarkable things about the book is how true Ibuse is to the experience of the bomb as it was being lived¡ªin its concreteness and specificity¡ªthe blinding flash, the mushroom cloud (¡°in ever-changing shades of red, purple, lapis lazuli, or green¡±), the black rain (radioactive fallout blackened with carbon ash)¡ªonly gradually organizing it into a pattern of coherence. (In fact, the main character only learns to call it an ¡°atomic bomb¡± in the penultimate chapter.) Some think it¡¯s a poison bomb; others, like Yasuko, a new type of oil bomb. But none can explain the people walking like scarecrows, their flesh falling off their bones in chunks, or the people turned to carbon statues of themselves, frozen in the last posture of life, or the floating carpet of corpses covering the ?ta river (not all the effects of the bomb were instantaneous: most people were cut to ribbons by flying glass, or crushed by collapsing buildings or else trapped until the firestorms sweeping through the city put an end to their screams)¡ªnone can explain why even those who appeared to have survived the flash are being struck down by a mysterious sickness¡
The book is a cacophony of voices, a mosaic of journal entries and fragments (adapted from testimony from real-life Hiroshima survivors)¡ªa form that allows for multiple perspectives (it¡¯s like gazing at a marble statue: you have to turn around it; in the end you get the picture) and time shifts (this is a past that isn¡¯t past but the vivid present: ¡°When she first told me about it, in the living room, there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky¡±). It paints a harrowing picture of that fateful day of August 6, 1945, when, in a single instant, with a single bomb, a city of 340,000 people was transformed into an inferno such as even Dante could never have dreamed, and its aftermath.
February 6, 2018
El 6 de agosto de 1945 el avi¨®n estadounidense Enola Gay lanz¨® la bomba at¨®mica Little Boy sobre Hiroshima. En dos kil??metros a la redonda de donde se produjo el impacto desapareci¨® todo signo de vida, provocando la onda expansiva una destrucci¨®n sin precedentes. Lluvia negra, que comenz¨® a publicarse por entregas en la revista Shincho en enero de 1965, narra las consecuencias inmediatas del ataque.
Hiroshima es una ciudad abrasada, una ciudad de cenizas, de muerte, de destrucci¨®n; los cad¨¢veres amontonados en las calles son una protesta silenciosa contra la inhumanidad de la guerra.
La novela comienza a?os despu¨¦s de ese d¨ªa: Shigematsu Shizuma, el narrador, su mujer Shigeko y su sobrina Yasuko han sobrevivido. Yasuko busca marido, pero los comentarios de que podr¨ªa sufrir la "enfermedad de la radiaci¨®n" hacen que los interesados, uno tras otro, den marcha atr¨¢s en las negociaciones. Su t¨ªo copiar¨¢ las entradas del diario de la joven inmediatamente posteriores a ese d¨ªa, para ense?¨¢rselo al siguiente pretendiente y acallar as¨ª los rumores de que estuvo expuesta a la lluvia negra de polvo, holl¨ªn y part¨ªculas radioactivas que comenz¨® a caer tras la explosi¨®n. La gran mayor¨ªa de los habitantes de Hiroshima se vieron expuestos a ella, para algunos las cosecuencias nocivas no tardaron m¨¢s que unos d¨ªas en llegar, mientras que otros no las padecieron hasta pasados meses o a?os.
Esta situaci¨®n de rechazo no fue infrecuente para los supervivientes de las bombas at¨®micas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, conocidos como los hibakushas (personas bombardeadas), no les era f¨¢cil contraer matrimonio ni encontrar trabajo, por lo que la mayor¨ªa se ve¨ªan obligados a tratar de ocultar su condici¨®n.
Shigematsu, que s¨ª estuvo expuesto a la radiaci¨®n, copia tambi¨¦n su diario, desde el d¨ªa 6 hasta el 15, fecha de la rendici¨®n de Jap¨®n, con el prop¨®sito de ced¨¦rselo como libro de consulta a la biblioteca de la escuela. As¨ª, veremos su propia experiencia con la enfermedad, con las heridas causadas por la explosi¨®n, el recorrido por la ciudad en busca de su familia, el encuentro con conocidos y desconocidos y sus diferentes historias, basadas en cr¨®nicas reales de supervivientes.
Poco a poco la trama de la b¨²squeda de un marido para Yasuko pasa a un segundo plano para centrarse en esas decenas de historias an¨®nimas dentro del caos y la destrucci¨®n que asolan Hiroshima. Pronto nos vemos sumidos en los primeros momentos de miedo e incertidumbre, en los intentos de organizaci¨®n pese a la escasa ayuda profesional, ya que la bomba cay¨® sobre la Cl¨ªnica quir¨²rgica de Shima, en el centro de la ciudad, y la inmensa mayor¨ªa del personal sanitario muri¨® instant¨¢neamente. Los pocos que quedaron no pudieron hacer mucho m¨¢s que tratar las heridas y quemaduras, pues nadie pod¨ªa conocer los efectos de aquella "nueva arma", que trajo una enfermedad desconocida para la que no hab¨ªa tratamiento.
Seg¨²n los informes oficiales que conoce Shigematsu d¨ªas despu¨¦s de la explosi¨®n, un tercio de toda la poblaci¨®n, incluyendo tropas y trabajadores voluntarios, hab¨ªa muerto en el acto. Otro tercio de la poblaci¨®n estaba gravemente herido, y el tercio restante hab¨ªa sufrido, sin ninguna excepci¨®n, alguna clase de lesi¨®n.
Narrada de forma sencilla y directa, nos muestra la realidad de manera cruda, sin ocultar detalles, de manera tan descarnada que en determinados momentos nos asaltar¨¢ la tentaci¨®n de mirar hacia otro lado. Pero, con todo, no es una narraci¨®n pesimista: es una historia de supervivencia, de ganas de vivir a pesar del horror que lo llena todo.
La historia est¨¢ llena de detalles humanos, incluso de momentos puntuales de humor, los personajes son tratados con enorme sensibilidad y ternura, lo que nos acerca a¨²n m¨¢s a la desgracia y contribuye a que las historias que conforman la obra nos causen una profunda impresi¨®n.
Lluvia negra no es una novela sobre la guerra, que pocas veces es nombrada a lo largo de sus p¨¢ginas, pero s¨ª profundamente antib¨¦lica, una llamada contra el olvido, que refleja como pocas el sadismo de la guerra.
Hiroshima es una ciudad abrasada, una ciudad de cenizas, de muerte, de destrucci¨®n; los cad¨¢veres amontonados en las calles son una protesta silenciosa contra la inhumanidad de la guerra.
La novela comienza a?os despu¨¦s de ese d¨ªa: Shigematsu Shizuma, el narrador, su mujer Shigeko y su sobrina Yasuko han sobrevivido. Yasuko busca marido, pero los comentarios de que podr¨ªa sufrir la "enfermedad de la radiaci¨®n" hacen que los interesados, uno tras otro, den marcha atr¨¢s en las negociaciones. Su t¨ªo copiar¨¢ las entradas del diario de la joven inmediatamente posteriores a ese d¨ªa, para ense?¨¢rselo al siguiente pretendiente y acallar as¨ª los rumores de que estuvo expuesta a la lluvia negra de polvo, holl¨ªn y part¨ªculas radioactivas que comenz¨® a caer tras la explosi¨®n. La gran mayor¨ªa de los habitantes de Hiroshima se vieron expuestos a ella, para algunos las cosecuencias nocivas no tardaron m¨¢s que unos d¨ªas en llegar, mientras que otros no las padecieron hasta pasados meses o a?os.
Esta situaci¨®n de rechazo no fue infrecuente para los supervivientes de las bombas at¨®micas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, conocidos como los hibakushas (personas bombardeadas), no les era f¨¢cil contraer matrimonio ni encontrar trabajo, por lo que la mayor¨ªa se ve¨ªan obligados a tratar de ocultar su condici¨®n.
Shigematsu, que s¨ª estuvo expuesto a la radiaci¨®n, copia tambi¨¦n su diario, desde el d¨ªa 6 hasta el 15, fecha de la rendici¨®n de Jap¨®n, con el prop¨®sito de ced¨¦rselo como libro de consulta a la biblioteca de la escuela. As¨ª, veremos su propia experiencia con la enfermedad, con las heridas causadas por la explosi¨®n, el recorrido por la ciudad en busca de su familia, el encuentro con conocidos y desconocidos y sus diferentes historias, basadas en cr¨®nicas reales de supervivientes.
Poco a poco la trama de la b¨²squeda de un marido para Yasuko pasa a un segundo plano para centrarse en esas decenas de historias an¨®nimas dentro del caos y la destrucci¨®n que asolan Hiroshima. Pronto nos vemos sumidos en los primeros momentos de miedo e incertidumbre, en los intentos de organizaci¨®n pese a la escasa ayuda profesional, ya que la bomba cay¨® sobre la Cl¨ªnica quir¨²rgica de Shima, en el centro de la ciudad, y la inmensa mayor¨ªa del personal sanitario muri¨® instant¨¢neamente. Los pocos que quedaron no pudieron hacer mucho m¨¢s que tratar las heridas y quemaduras, pues nadie pod¨ªa conocer los efectos de aquella "nueva arma", que trajo una enfermedad desconocida para la que no hab¨ªa tratamiento.
Seg¨²n los informes oficiales que conoce Shigematsu d¨ªas despu¨¦s de la explosi¨®n, un tercio de toda la poblaci¨®n, incluyendo tropas y trabajadores voluntarios, hab¨ªa muerto en el acto. Otro tercio de la poblaci¨®n estaba gravemente herido, y el tercio restante hab¨ªa sufrido, sin ninguna excepci¨®n, alguna clase de lesi¨®n.
Narrada de forma sencilla y directa, nos muestra la realidad de manera cruda, sin ocultar detalles, de manera tan descarnada que en determinados momentos nos asaltar¨¢ la tentaci¨®n de mirar hacia otro lado. Pero, con todo, no es una narraci¨®n pesimista: es una historia de supervivencia, de ganas de vivir a pesar del horror que lo llena todo.
La historia est¨¢ llena de detalles humanos, incluso de momentos puntuales de humor, los personajes son tratados con enorme sensibilidad y ternura, lo que nos acerca a¨²n m¨¢s a la desgracia y contribuye a que las historias que conforman la obra nos causen una profunda impresi¨®n.
Lluvia negra no es una novela sobre la guerra, que pocas veces es nombrada a lo largo de sus p¨¢ginas, pero s¨ª profundamente antib¨¦lica, una llamada contra el olvido, que refleja como pocas el sadismo de la guerra.
December 7, 2014
Thundery black clouds had borne down on us from the direction of the city, and the rain from them had fallen in streaks the thickness of a fountain pen.
Ibuse's documentary novel is his widely acclaimed masterpiece about the aftermath of Hiroshima, expressed through the diaries of two survivors, Shigematsu and his niece, Yasuko. Shigematsu uses the diaries to try to prove that Yasuko is marriage-worthy, untainted by any poisonous fallout. Ibuse's tale recounts the lives of innocent, ordinary people irreparably altered by the dropping of the bomb; the immediate death of many; the chronic illness and subsequent discrimination that the survivors endured within the Japanese community. Shigematsu's journal makes up a large portion of the novel and is a record of an actual person; Yasuko's memoir is the author's invention.
Ibuse uses a matrix of themes that include violent natural and historical forces, estrangement and ambivalence, the sufferings of war, the strengths of victims cast aside, the traditional spirituality in commemoration of the dead. His novelistic values are rooted in Japanese tradition, depicting village lives with their unpretentious mix of customs, prejudices, and peculiarities; he smoothly contrasts humor with horror, dystopia with hope.
Reading Black Rain had the surrealistic effect of an apocalyptic science fiction - the construction of a natural world annihilated by a cataclysmic event that, had the reader been 'born yesterday', and therefore not privy to this world's history, would have suspended all ideas of reality and the belief in humanity.
Ibuse measures his storytelling with understatement and elusiveness, but despite this deceptive muteness and almost emotionally leveled prose, the depiction of the effects of the aftermath on the survivors is acidic. It is precisely from this unsettling degree of 'soft-spokeness' that the power of Black Rain, to evoke the horror of a nuclear event, is drawn. Noticeably, too, is the absence of the author's own point of view of the bombing, making the scope of the tragedy even greater when left to the reader's personal interpretation.
Even after realizing the inevitable cycle of death around him, Shigematsu whispers words tainted with a small spark of hope: "If a rainbow appears over those hills now, a miracle will happen," he prophesied to himself. "Let a rainbow appear- not a white one - but one of many hues- and Yasuko can be cured."
That is the spirit of the survivor!
I highly recommend this subtle, evocative novel. Also see its film adaptation Kuroi Ame (1989)
****
Masuji Ibuse
From by John Whittier Treat, p.208 :
Ibuse wanted to make sense out of Hiroshima, to find a way to make it fit into some greater truth, but : "I asked myself: Why did this happen? Everything seemed senseless... There was no justice, no humanity, no anything in what happened. Everyone died... it was too terrible."
Ibuse's documentary novel is his widely acclaimed masterpiece about the aftermath of Hiroshima, expressed through the diaries of two survivors, Shigematsu and his niece, Yasuko. Shigematsu uses the diaries to try to prove that Yasuko is marriage-worthy, untainted by any poisonous fallout. Ibuse's tale recounts the lives of innocent, ordinary people irreparably altered by the dropping of the bomb; the immediate death of many; the chronic illness and subsequent discrimination that the survivors endured within the Japanese community. Shigematsu's journal makes up a large portion of the novel and is a record of an actual person; Yasuko's memoir is the author's invention.
I washed my hands at the ornamental spring, but even rubbing at the marks with soap couldn't get them off. They were stuck fast on the skin. It was most odd. I showed them to Uncle Shigematsu, who said, " It could be the oil from an oil bomb, after all. I wonder if it wasn't an oil bomb they dropped, then?"
Ibuse uses a matrix of themes that include violent natural and historical forces, estrangement and ambivalence, the sufferings of war, the strengths of victims cast aside, the traditional spirituality in commemoration of the dead. His novelistic values are rooted in Japanese tradition, depicting village lives with their unpretentious mix of customs, prejudices, and peculiarities; he smoothly contrasts humor with horror, dystopia with hope.
Reading Black Rain had the surrealistic effect of an apocalyptic science fiction - the construction of a natural world annihilated by a cataclysmic event that, had the reader been 'born yesterday', and therefore not privy to this world's history, would have suspended all ideas of reality and the belief in humanity.
...the correct name for the thing that had caused the monstrous flash-and-bang over the city.. An 'atomic bomb'... It gives off a terrific radiation...They say nothing'll grow in Hiroshima or Nagasaki for another seventy-five years.
Ibuse measures his storytelling with understatement and elusiveness, but despite this deceptive muteness and almost emotionally leveled prose, the depiction of the effects of the aftermath on the survivors is acidic. It is precisely from this unsettling degree of 'soft-spokeness' that the power of Black Rain, to evoke the horror of a nuclear event, is drawn. Noticeably, too, is the absence of the author's own point of view of the bombing, making the scope of the tragedy even greater when left to the reader's personal interpretation.
Wouldn't it have been possible to surrender before the bomb had been dropped?
I hated war. Who cared , after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a 'just' war.
Even after realizing the inevitable cycle of death around him, Shigematsu whispers words tainted with a small spark of hope: "If a rainbow appears over those hills now, a miracle will happen," he prophesied to himself. "Let a rainbow appear- not a white one - but one of many hues- and Yasuko can be cured."
That is the spirit of the survivor!
I highly recommend this subtle, evocative novel. Also see its film adaptation Kuroi Ame (1989)
****
Masuji Ibuse
From by John Whittier Treat, p.208 :
Ibuse wanted to make sense out of Hiroshima, to find a way to make it fit into some greater truth, but : "I asked myself: Why did this happen? Everything seemed senseless... There was no justice, no humanity, no anything in what happened. Everyone died... it was too terrible."
October 19, 2018
What's scariest to me is how long ago this seems, because I feel like we might have forgotten what it was like.
Here's a book about nuclear bombs, which we dropped on Japan twice in 1945, in order to end the war or make a point about how things might go after the war. The classic English book about it is Hiroshima by John Hersey, but I felt like I wanted something written by a Japanese person, so here we are with Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain, also a classic. Both books are based on interviews with Japanese people who survived Hiroshima. Black Rain turns them into a novel of sorts, with a framing story.
What you really feel is how confused everyone was. They had no idea what they¡¯d been attacked with. They were all so terribly hurt, so quickly and so mysteriously. They didn't know that the city was still dangerous, so lots of people went back into the ruins to search for loved ones, and were irradiated and died. Nurses and aid workers were killed days after the blast.
Certain weeds grew unnaturally quick and lush. Armies of flies covered everything. "It was an envoy of the devil himself," says our narrator. "Who else in the whole wide universe would have presumed to summon forth such a monstrosity?"
It's a good book. All you ask for with something like this is testimony; you want the book to stay out of its own way, and Ibuse does that. It's hard to read. Children died, people's bodies became nightmares, and Ibuse wants to make sure we understand what all of that looks like, sounds like, smells like, and feels like.
I don't know how Japanese people feel about the bombings today. goes off-topic almost immediately. How do you feel about it? I feel bad.
Here's a book about nuclear bombs, which we dropped on Japan twice in 1945, in order to end the war or make a point about how things might go after the war. The classic English book about it is Hiroshima by John Hersey, but I felt like I wanted something written by a Japanese person, so here we are with Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain, also a classic. Both books are based on interviews with Japanese people who survived Hiroshima. Black Rain turns them into a novel of sorts, with a framing story.
What you really feel is how confused everyone was. They had no idea what they¡¯d been attacked with. They were all so terribly hurt, so quickly and so mysteriously. They didn't know that the city was still dangerous, so lots of people went back into the ruins to search for loved ones, and were irradiated and died. Nurses and aid workers were killed days after the blast.
Certain weeds grew unnaturally quick and lush. Armies of flies covered everything. "It was an envoy of the devil himself," says our narrator. "Who else in the whole wide universe would have presumed to summon forth such a monstrosity?"
It's a good book. All you ask for with something like this is testimony; you want the book to stay out of its own way, and Ibuse does that. It's hard to read. Children died, people's bodies became nightmares, and Ibuse wants to make sure we understand what all of that looks like, sounds like, smells like, and feels like.
I don't know how Japanese people feel about the bombings today. goes off-topic almost immediately. How do you feel about it? I feel bad.
August 6, 2020
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I am at a complete loss for what to say about this book It left me horrified. Everybody should read it.
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December 16, 2020
A very memorable documentary-esque book detailing the post-bombing lives of Japanese civilians in Hiroshima. It seems to be the standard text on the subject. The horrors of radiation sickness depicted will stick with you for a long time. When I watched the recent miniseries titled Chernobyl, I was reminded of some of the scenes in this book. It has a similar tension, though the two catastrophes are not congruent. What it certainly offers is a bleak, accurate, and dense panoply of the resonating and disturbing consequences of the war from the perspective of ordinary Japanese citizens. The personal voice infusing the novel is both heartbreaking and wonderfully strong.
Ibuse is an underrated author in my part of the world, who has several excellent books in English translation. This stands out as his most famous and elegant production, though I would not call it approachable or easily digestible.
Aside from the physical suffering, the psychological problems arising as a result of the bombs are also poignantly portrayed. I found it more harrowing than McCarthy's The Road. The Realism is what penetrates deepest. Ibuse's traditional style is well-suited to the task of relating the experiences of his well-formed composite characters. Essentially, he has condensed the diaries of survivors into a literary distillation. He was not there himself, but I can only imagine how difficult it was for him to balance and focus his efforts.
A magnificent novel in terms of its communicative strategy and imagistic content. It offers little closure by the end, as does real life. After reading this tough novel, I urge you to try his lighthearted story collection called Salamander.
Ibuse is an underrated author in my part of the world, who has several excellent books in English translation. This stands out as his most famous and elegant production, though I would not call it approachable or easily digestible.
Aside from the physical suffering, the psychological problems arising as a result of the bombs are also poignantly portrayed. I found it more harrowing than McCarthy's The Road. The Realism is what penetrates deepest. Ibuse's traditional style is well-suited to the task of relating the experiences of his well-formed composite characters. Essentially, he has condensed the diaries of survivors into a literary distillation. He was not there himself, but I can only imagine how difficult it was for him to balance and focus his efforts.
A magnificent novel in terms of its communicative strategy and imagistic content. It offers little closure by the end, as does real life. After reading this tough novel, I urge you to try his lighthearted story collection called Salamander.
June 2, 2019
Somehow I have two copies of this book. Hey, it happens.
I picked one of the copies up the other day, thinking that this might be a good book (paperback, small, comfortable to hold) book to take with me to Ireland when I leave tomorrow. I started to read it but didn't have any intentions of getting very far. It's a translated novel about a very complex and disturbing topic (the bombing of Hiroshima), one that I might need to read in small bits and pieces so I don't get too overwhelmed like the fragile, white, privileged person that I am. It turns out, though, I could barely put it down.
The characters in this story are based on real-life diaries and interviews with the survivors. As a result, it's impact is greater and, as the back cover suggests, "free from sentimentality." The writing itself is spectacular and kept me engrossed the entire time, hence why I couldn't actually put it down for very long and wound up completing it before I had even finished packing for my trip. I found it as educational as riveting, as a good novel based on true events should be.
I'm not going to lie. I thought the whole novel would be filled with details like that, which might, after time, become tedious and a slog to get through. I never once had that feeling. Even with the diary entries and interviews, it all rolled right off the page as though I was there for every second of it.
And how privileged I am, really. I know students today deal with active shooter drills in schools, but when I was a kid in the Midwest, we had tornado drills. Oh, and, for a couple of years after someone made a prediction: earthquake drills.
There's something about Ibuse's writing that captured my heart, something poetic about the way he looked at the events in Hiroshima
If you have the opportunity to read this incredible book, I highly recommend it. Or check locally in used bookstores because, like I said, I somehow have two copies of this so the Pittsburgh region will have those back in the trade world sometime in the near future.
I picked one of the copies up the other day, thinking that this might be a good book (paperback, small, comfortable to hold) book to take with me to Ireland when I leave tomorrow. I started to read it but didn't have any intentions of getting very far. It's a translated novel about a very complex and disturbing topic (the bombing of Hiroshima), one that I might need to read in small bits and pieces so I don't get too overwhelmed like the fragile, white, privileged person that I am. It turns out, though, I could barely put it down.
The characters in this story are based on real-life diaries and interviews with the survivors. As a result, it's impact is greater and, as the back cover suggests, "free from sentimentality." The writing itself is spectacular and kept me engrossed the entire time, hence why I couldn't actually put it down for very long and wound up completing it before I had even finished packing for my trip. I found it as educational as riveting, as a good novel based on true events should be.
The symptoms of radiation sickness usually began with an unexplained lethargy and heaviness of the limbs. After a few days the hair would come out without any pain, and the teeth would come loose and eventually fall out. Finally, collapse set in and the patient died. The essential thing if one felt lethargy in the early stages of the sickness was to rest and eat well. Those who forced themselves to work gradually wilted, like a pine tree transplanted by a bungling gardener, until finally they expired. In the village next to Kobatake, and in the village beyond that, there had been people who had come home from Hiroshima in the best of health, congratulating themselves on their escape, and had worked their hardest for a month or two, only to take to their beds, and die within a week or ten days. The sickness would set in in one particular part of the body, producing the excruciating pain so characteristic of it. The pain in the shoulders and back, too, was comparably worse than with any other disease.God forbid you be exposed to radiation, now you know the symptoms. Oh, and you'll be screwed.
(p14-15)
I'm not going to lie. I thought the whole novel would be filled with details like that, which might, after time, become tedious and a slog to get through. I never once had that feeling. Even with the diary entries and interviews, it all rolled right off the page as though I was there for every second of it.
And how privileged I am, really. I know students today deal with active shooter drills in schools, but when I was a kid in the Midwest, we had tornado drills. Oh, and, for a couple of years after someone made a prediction: earthquake drills.
We had often been taught during air raid drill that one must always breathe out steadily while a bomb was falling. Perhaps the sentry and the delivery boy had been breathing in at the moment the bomb burst? I did not understand the physiology of it, but it occurred to me that a blast just as one had filled one's lungs to capacity might well press on them and cause instant death.Isn't that a terrifying thought? Or is it just because I have feelings of claustrophobia at random times and that paragraph basically triggers the hell out of that feeling. I couldn't breath for a moment after I initially read that passage.
(p105)
There's something about Ibuse's writing that captured my heart, something poetic about the way he looked at the events in Hiroshima
It seemed to me that the familiar world had fallen on Hiroshima. In olden times, people used to say that in an area badly ravaged by war it took a century to repair the moral damage done to the inhabitants; and it began to seem as though they might have been right.I wonder if anything has been learned from Hiroshima. We still have money-hungry and war-hungry men twiddling their thumbs and waiting for the "right moment" to release the kraken (in this case: really, really, really big bombs). It's terrifying - history means nothing, it seems, and books like this, which tells the ugly history in a beautiful package, seems to go unread.
(p149)
In the playground of the First Prefectural Middle School in the city - one of them said - there was a reservoir of water for fire-fighting purposes. Around it, hundreds of middle school students and voluntary war workers lay dead. They were piled up at the edge of the reservoir, half-naked since their shirts had been burned away. Seen from a distance, they looked like beds of tulips planted round the water. Seen closer, they were more like the layers of petals on a chrysanthemum.The cover of my edition has a blurb by : "Here is a novel...which turns Hiroshima into a major work of art." I thought that was a load of crap when I first picked up the book. How can such a horrific event be written as a work of art? How dare he make such a callous observation? But then I read those words, "Seen closer, they were more like the layers of petals on a chrysanthemum," and it made complete sense to me. An image was painted. And through the painting I continued to learn so much about what happened, and not from an American history textbook that glosses over everything:
(p154)
It probably meant that the powers-that-be had already come to some kind of terms with the enemy, and were going to make them public at noon tomorrow. Even so, neither a peace conference nor an armistice seemed very probable, considering the way enemy planes were flying about as though they owned the place. The only possibility, therefore, was surrender, which would probably mean that the enemy - just as the Japanese Army had done in places it occupied overseas - would land in Japan, occupy the harbors, and disarm all Japan's armed forces...Or could it be that the important broadcast was going to be a declaration of war on the Soviet Union? If so, it was tantamount to Japan's taking on most of the world singlehanded. What was going to happen to Japanese forces serving overseas? To civilians at home? So far, it had seemed that no life could be worse than that of the moment, but if it was a question of the whole nation being wiped out, a man was ready to do his bit. (Just what that bit was, though, no one was quite sure.) The enemy had military might on his side. In all likelihood, every single Japanese male would be castrated...Wouldn't it have been possible to surrender before the bomb had been dropped? No - it was because the bomb was dropped that Japan was surrendering. Even so, the enemy must have known that Japan was beaten already; it was hardly necessary to drop the bomb.That entire passage shows just the number of questions civilians would have had following the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Ibuse himself was not actually there, but, as previously mentioned, used real diary entries and interviews to tell his story. He captured the confusion, the complexity, the terror so well that a 40-year-old white woman in 2019 was so impressed that she is even more concerned about little boy-men wielding big-ass weapons of mass destruction.
(p291-2)
If you have the opportunity to read this incredible book, I highly recommend it. Or check locally in used bookstores because, like I said, I somehow have two copies of this so the Pittsburgh region will have those back in the trade world sometime in the near future.
September 1, 2016
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August 6, 2016
So much pain and despair in this modest, but powerful book. Can you live your life after you survived hell? Is it ok to survive the hell when others didn't?
January 20, 2012
Reading this novel was, in part, like watching a sports team snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. For about half the way Masuji Ibuse notched a five-star work on his belt, but, at some point, the author let it all get away from him somewhat--because he seemed less compelled to stick to his powerful, poetic story than to set down for posterity the "novel of record" about the bombing of Hiroshima. Granted, I am somewhat glad he did this, because as a documentary "sights and sounds" kaleidoscopic view of events before the bombing on August 6, 1945, and up to the day of Japan's surrender on August 15, it is as fulsome, meticulous and vivid as one could expect. One wonders, then, why Ibuse didn't just write a non-fiction book, since most of the accounts and descriptions of hardship therein seem to have been culled from life, and because the main thrust of his fictional narrative, which compels the readers interest early on, is strayed from almost completely and lost over the course of the book.
The one character who is present throughout the book is a senior factory manager named Shizuma Shigematsu, but increasingly as the story unfolds even he seems less a protoganist than a kind of guide or Greek chorus. The book has an odd structure that places the initial narrative well after the fact of the bombing, then goes back in time to points before, during and after the hellish days of the nuclear holocaust, and then alternates between ominiscient narratives about the characters and first-person diary entries by the protagonists and ancillary characters. The best part of the book is its initial narrative, which begins a couple of years after the bombing and examines the heartbreaking plight of young Yasuko to find a matrimonial partner for herself despite suffering ostracism resulting from her suspected exposure to radiation from the bomb. I found this social exclusion factor an interesting socio-cultural aspect of the Hiroshima tragedy, one not often considered in lieu of all the obvious physical scarring and death that tends to be focused on.
Yasuko, who is under the guardianship of her uncle Shigematsu and aunt Shigeko, shows no physical signs initially to her exposure to the "black rain," the dark, dusty radioactive precipitation that fell on the city in the days following the bombing. Because of this her uncle and aunt decide that fears by her suitors about her exposure are unwarranted, and thus Shigematsu sets out to create a diary written by himself, Yasuko, and Shigeko to help prove that the young lady--in contrast to Shigematsu and others who suffered evident physical maladies from the bombing--is "safe" and marriageable. The diaries soon become the basis for a much more sprawling "Journal of the Bombing" composed by various doctors, soldiers, and other acquaintances who witnessed or suffered from the horrors of the bombing.
Throughout, the novel is infused with unforgettable imagery of gruesome destruction and suffering--and the towering presence of the massive mushroom cloud as it darkens and spreads over the city is haunting and frightening to contemplate. With this image and the scene of chaos unfolding below, it must have been one of the most epochal things in human history to have witnessed. Ibuse gives an incredible sense of it in the early part of the novel. Shigematsu's various journeys around the city, to seek lost loved ones or to procure coal for his factory in the disorder, are told with ample detail and precision. One can smell the burning and rotting corpses.
As a litany of what went on in Hiroshima it's hard to beat, and is certainly an excellent adjunct to John Hersey's classic reportage of that time, Hiroshima. But, after awhile, as the Yasuko narrative thrust and drama are diffused, the book loses its gravitas and begins to feel like a repetitive laundry list.
At times, the back-and-forth narrative time shifts and the inclusion of so many narrative voices begins to detract rather than enlighten; Ibuse loses the power of simplicity. The more he tries to add personalities, the less personal the book feels. And the less the reader begins to feel. The effect is desensitizing.
Nonetheless, this was a powerful and informative book, filled with interesting Japanese socio-cultural attitudes at the time of the war. The book's tone is not angry as much as it is bewildered, and that's to its credit.
The one character who is present throughout the book is a senior factory manager named Shizuma Shigematsu, but increasingly as the story unfolds even he seems less a protoganist than a kind of guide or Greek chorus. The book has an odd structure that places the initial narrative well after the fact of the bombing, then goes back in time to points before, during and after the hellish days of the nuclear holocaust, and then alternates between ominiscient narratives about the characters and first-person diary entries by the protagonists and ancillary characters. The best part of the book is its initial narrative, which begins a couple of years after the bombing and examines the heartbreaking plight of young Yasuko to find a matrimonial partner for herself despite suffering ostracism resulting from her suspected exposure to radiation from the bomb. I found this social exclusion factor an interesting socio-cultural aspect of the Hiroshima tragedy, one not often considered in lieu of all the obvious physical scarring and death that tends to be focused on.
Yasuko, who is under the guardianship of her uncle Shigematsu and aunt Shigeko, shows no physical signs initially to her exposure to the "black rain," the dark, dusty radioactive precipitation that fell on the city in the days following the bombing. Because of this her uncle and aunt decide that fears by her suitors about her exposure are unwarranted, and thus Shigematsu sets out to create a diary written by himself, Yasuko, and Shigeko to help prove that the young lady--in contrast to Shigematsu and others who suffered evident physical maladies from the bombing--is "safe" and marriageable. The diaries soon become the basis for a much more sprawling "Journal of the Bombing" composed by various doctors, soldiers, and other acquaintances who witnessed or suffered from the horrors of the bombing.
Throughout, the novel is infused with unforgettable imagery of gruesome destruction and suffering--and the towering presence of the massive mushroom cloud as it darkens and spreads over the city is haunting and frightening to contemplate. With this image and the scene of chaos unfolding below, it must have been one of the most epochal things in human history to have witnessed. Ibuse gives an incredible sense of it in the early part of the novel. Shigematsu's various journeys around the city, to seek lost loved ones or to procure coal for his factory in the disorder, are told with ample detail and precision. One can smell the burning and rotting corpses.
As a litany of what went on in Hiroshima it's hard to beat, and is certainly an excellent adjunct to John Hersey's classic reportage of that time, Hiroshima. But, after awhile, as the Yasuko narrative thrust and drama are diffused, the book loses its gravitas and begins to feel like a repetitive laundry list.
At times, the back-and-forth narrative time shifts and the inclusion of so many narrative voices begins to detract rather than enlighten; Ibuse loses the power of simplicity. The more he tries to add personalities, the less personal the book feels. And the less the reader begins to feel. The effect is desensitizing.
Nonetheless, this was a powerful and informative book, filled with interesting Japanese socio-cultural attitudes at the time of the war. The book's tone is not angry as much as it is bewildered, and that's to its credit.
August 17, 2021
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October 10, 2018
In brief, this book by Masuji Ibuse based "his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust" (back cover) caused by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 at Hiroshima around 8.15 a.m. is worth reading since we could fathom their plight amidst those unlucky fallen Japanese citizens of all ages there; while reading it I could not help praying and hoping that unthinkable man-made catastrophe would never happen again anywhere, it is simply bitterly touching due to the writer's objective description of such an unimaginable and horrible inferno ever done to humankind, surprisingly, without any sense of remorse or revenge and, I think, that page of history has since proved the spirit and valor of such a unique, respectable and admirable country in the name of Japan to the whole wide world to see and be gradually amazed.
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Today (2017.7.23) after sending my message thanking Maureen on her Like, I found that the website mentioned below simply can't be accessible due to its copyright; therefore, I'm sorry for your disappointment and I decide to leave the whole paragraph at that within [. . .] as history of my review in which the site ultimately proves that anything starts will reach the end when the time comes.
August 7, 2017
I feel like it has taken me a very long time to get through this book. I found I needed frequent breaks because it was just so harrowing. The "black rain" of the title refers to the soot filled rain that fell when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and the story centres around Yasuko, a young woman who was victim of this and subsequently struggles to find a marriage match. The story is told through the journal entries of her guardian and others.
The story lacks a strong narrative thread and occasionally feels a bit meandering and unfocused but rather than detracting from the book, it almost adds to the power of it. The overall impression one comes away with is the sheer bewilderment of the residents at what had happened. There is a lot of superstition and speculation, and the term "atomic bomb" is not encountered until the last few pages of the book. The journal entries read very much like non-fiction (and I believe the author made a lot of use of survivors' real life diaries) and documents what happened in such a matter of fact and unsensationalised way that it becomes very poignant.
This is a very powerful book and deserves to be much more widely read.
The story lacks a strong narrative thread and occasionally feels a bit meandering and unfocused but rather than detracting from the book, it almost adds to the power of it. The overall impression one comes away with is the sheer bewilderment of the residents at what had happened. There is a lot of superstition and speculation, and the term "atomic bomb" is not encountered until the last few pages of the book. The journal entries read very much like non-fiction (and I believe the author made a lot of use of survivors' real life diaries) and documents what happened in such a matter of fact and unsensationalised way that it becomes very poignant.
This is a very powerful book and deserves to be much more widely read.
October 10, 2018
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May 24, 2018
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March 18, 2020
Klju?na re? mog iskustva ?itanja ?Crne ki?e¡± bila bi re? dostojanstvenost. Negde je bilo potrebno veliko ume?e u meri da se u romanu o stradanju civila u padu atomske bombe na Hiro?imu balansira izme?u fikcionalnosti i dokumentarnosti, patosa i cinizma, ogor?enosti i humora, nihilizma i volje za ?ivotom, a Masu?iju uglavnom to polazi za rukom. Rezultat je upe?atljiv antiratni roman o nezamislivim u?asima atomske bombe, a opet i spomenik ?oveku u njegovoj ranjivosti.
February 22, 2017
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November 7, 2022
Published in 1965, this is a story of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It centers around the family of Shizuma Shigematsu, his wife Shigeko and their niece Yasuko. Shizuma has a job that requires him to travel around the city, and he relates his observations. He also transcribes Yasuko¡¯s journal to provide to the family whose son may be interested in marrying her, though she is rumored to be a victim of the ¡°black rain.¡±
This novel vividly depicts the human suffering from the bombing, including a massive number of deaths, devastation of the city, radioactive fallout, and the general confusion of the populace. It is a powerful portrayal of the human cost of atomic war, and in particular, the horrifying results of radiation sickness. It is fiction but is based on extensive research of actual accounts and interviews. It is a book for those interested in comprehending the entirety of WWII.
This novel vividly depicts the human suffering from the bombing, including a massive number of deaths, devastation of the city, radioactive fallout, and the general confusion of the populace. It is a powerful portrayal of the human cost of atomic war, and in particular, the horrifying results of radiation sickness. It is fiction but is based on extensive research of actual accounts and interviews. It is a book for those interested in comprehending the entirety of WWII.
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