Text, Image, and the War Dead
The book evokes Hiroshima as a beautiful city built on top of the bones of the war dead; a place once destroyed by a nuclear bomb but now alive with lush green trees, mountains, and a thriving built environment; a delta with a hundred bridges spanning the rivers so one might go home. The book also asserts an ethical stance against nuclear weapons, social injustice, and war, one consonant with the spirit of Hiroshima (Hiroshima no kokoro).