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I told her ¹ wouldn't leave without her, but the flames were closing ² around us and my clothes caught fire and it ³ so hot that I couldn't stand it any longer. "⁴, Mother," I cried as I ran as fast as ⁵ could through the flames. There was fire all around, ⁶ there was no way to escape so I jumped ⁷ a water tank by the side of the road. ⁸ of sparks were falling from the sky so I ⁹ a piece of tin over my head to keep ¹⁰ off. The water in the tank got hot like ¹¹ bath. There were four or five other people in ¹² tank, too, and they were all crying and shouting ¹³ names. As I sat in the water, I started ¹⁴ get a dreamy feeling and finally passed out.I ¹⁵ know how long it was before I came to, ¹⁶ it seemed to be morning. Smoke was coming up ¹⁷ here and there and I could hear the cracking ¹⁸ popping of things smoldering on the ground.In the ¹⁹ beside me, there was a dead woman lying back ²⁰ peacefully as if she were asleep. As soon as ²¹ noticed her, I got scared and shouted to a ²² man for help. He lifted me out the ²³ and told me that there was a first-aid station ²⁴ ahead. I walked beside the man. Just as I ²⁵ wondering what had become of my mother, I happened ²⁶ take a look at my hand. The skin was ²⁷ and sore. I also felt a pain in my ²⁸ and back. At the station, they took care of ²⁹ and gave me some rice balls to eat. Then ³⁰ got in a truck that took me to a ³¹ school outside the city. There were hundreds of injured ³² there groaning with pain. The people in charge there ³³ all very kind, making our meals, and comforting and ³⁴ after us. But day after day — scores of injured ³⁵ died and there was a bad smell coming from ³⁶ corner of the playground where dead bodies were cremated ³⁷ piles of sticks. I was very worried about my ³⁸ and cried every day.There was a man who ³⁹ to go with me and help me search for ⁴⁰ mother. We went back into Hiroshima City together, but ⁴¹ we came in front of the Fukuya Department Store, ⁴² said to me, "Wait here for a while," and ⁴³ away. He never came back and I trudged along ⁴⁴ myself through the burned-down area. We had been having ⁴⁵ weather for several days and the sun was so ⁴⁶ that the ground felt very hot under my feet. ⁴⁷ saw a lot of dead bodies by the roadside ⁴⁸ there were also carcasses of horses and dogs. I ⁴⁹ not to look. The town which had once been ⁵⁰ busy with people and traffic was now turned into ⁵¹ vast burned field. Only the concrete buildings remained standing ⁵² and there like so many giants. Everyone was looking ⁵³ someone or other. They were dragging themselves along feebly, ⁵⁴ tears filled their eyes. I saw people digging out ⁵⁵ bones of their relatives and friends and putting ⁵⁶ into urns. What had become of my mother? Could ⁵⁷ have helped her escape after I left her? I ⁵⁸ up to every woman who passed by and looked ⁵⁹ at her face partly hidden by the air-raid hood ⁶⁰ she might be my mother. When I saw that ⁶¹ wasn't, I was sad and disappointed. Enemy planes were ⁶² low in the sky.I hadn't had anything to ⁶³ or drink since breakfast so I was hungry and ⁶⁴ and so exhausted that I couldn't walk any further. ⁶⁵ I sat crying by the roadside, a passer-by placed ⁶⁶ small bag of hard biscuits in my hand and ⁶⁷ me to a sip from his canteen. I still ⁶⁸ how happy this made me. Then a policeman came ⁶⁹ and asked me what the matter was. After I ⁷⁰ him my story, he took me to a police ⁷¹ where I stayed for the night. When I told ⁷² that my grandmother lived in Miyajima, he made out ⁷³ pass and gave it to me. With the pass, ⁷⁴ got a ride on the suburban streetcar from Koi ⁷⁵ then took a ferryboat to Miyajima, where at long ⁷⁶ I found my way to my grandmother's house.She ⁷⁷ overjoyed to see me and immediately asked, "Where ⁷⁸ Sueko (my mother's name)?"When I told her about everything that had happened ⁷⁹ us, she broke into tears. One day about five ⁸⁰ later, she said to me, "Your mother is really ⁸¹ after all." A relative had found and brought back ⁸² ashes. She had burned to death, unable to get ⁸³ of the wrecked house. I hugged the urn that ⁸⁴ her ashes and I cried loudly. I couldn't keep ⁸⁵ the tears which kept streaming down my cheeks. ⁸⁶ wife, son and daughter of the family we were ⁸⁷ had all died in the same way.It was ⁸⁸ that I would stay with my grandmother. It was ⁸⁹ that time that my hair began to fall out, ⁹⁰ the burn on my hand got worse. At first, ⁹¹ was very kind as she comforted me and changed ⁹² bandage on my hand. But later she became cold ⁹³ me. Whenever I noticed this change in my grandmother, ⁹⁴ would be filled with resentment and sadness, and many ⁹⁵ of my kind, gentle mother and pleasant times ⁹⁶ had together would go racing through my head. Night ⁹⁷ night I cried endlessly. I don't know how it ⁹⁸ about. But when the bright red of the maple ⁹⁹ in Miyajima had faded, and the chilly autumn winds ¹⁰⁰ to blow, a relative of mine in Kyoto City came to take me away with him.

 

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