40. Hijiyama Girls' Middle School Monument
When the names carved into the monument
Are stroked by the breeze,
I wish your scars would be healed,
Your hair would sway in the wind,
As it did when you were young.
Explanation
Hiroshima Showa Girls' Middle School was established as a school to practice teaching for the students of Hiroshima University and Hiroshima Higher School of Education in 1939.
The school was renamed Hijiyama Girls' Middle School in 1943.
The inscription of the monument tells that 75 school staff members and students were killed in the A-bombing.
The Tanka poem inscribed on the monument reads:
Souls of young students should be remembered,
Who earnestly devoted themselves to their country,
Putting aside their pens.
Location: Hijiyama Gakuen, Nishi Kasumi-cho, Minami-ku