Shinoe Shōda

[1] Around 1920 her family moved to Ujina, just outside Hiroshima, and in 1925 she enrolled in a Jōdo Shinshū girls' high school, graduating in 1929.

[1] By February of the next year, her father had died of intestinal cancer and later her son also fell ill.[1] Following Japan's surrender, Shōda started writing traditional tanka poetry on the theme of the atomic bombing.

[1][2][3] 150 copies of the book were mimeographed by a clerk at the Hiroshima prison and Shōda personally distributed it to victims of the blast.

[1] She died on 15 June 1965,[1] the year before the publication of her second tanka collection, Sarusuberi ("Crape myrtle"), published in 1966.

[6] One of her poems from Sange appears on the Monument of the A-bombed Teachers and Students of National Elementary Schools in Hiroshima.