Innovative Personal Response
By:Celina Nuth
Field
Tenor
Paper Crane
When she was in the hospital, her friend and family brought her a folded paper crane and told her the story about it. According to Japanese legend, the crane lives for a thousand years, and a sick person who folds a thousand cranes will become well again.
Sadako folded cranes throughout her illness. The flock hung above her bed on strings. When she died at the age of twelve, Sadako had folded 644 cranes. Friends and family folded the 356 remaining cranes, so that one thousand were buried with Sadako.
Hiroshima peace park
Sadako information
Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the bomb was dropped on her home city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Sadako seemed to escape any ill effects after her exposure to the bomb, until, ten years later, she developed leukemia, "the atom bomb disease."