Bringing Forth New Life (生ましめんかな, Umashimen kana) is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing.
[1] It tells the true story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of burns and exhaustion in the process.
[2] The baby was named Kazuko Kojima (小嶋和子) and is still living in Hiroshima as of 2023.
[3] Alternate English titles for the poem are We Shall Bring Forth New Life[2] and Let Us Be Midwives!
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