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I'm looking for the Japanese text of the following
[haiku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku), maybe written by [Sasaki
Sadako](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki) :

> Statute of A-bomb child
>
> she seems as if walking
>
> after a butterfly

I found the English text [here](http://war-
haiku.tempslibres.org/poets/ys.html). The author may be Sasaki Sadako (see the
mention "Sadoka Sasaki - a thousand of cranes") or Yasuhiko Shigemoto (but I
don't see this haiku [in the texts written by this author and available
online](http://www.fureai-ch.ne.jp/%7Ehaiku/)).

I guess "Statute of A-bomb child" is the translation of
["原爆の子の像"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument) (seven
[morae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_\(linguistics\))).
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poetry haiku
looking for a haiku maybe written by Sasaki Sadako
[Disclaimer: This might crush your dream.]

First of all, here are the facts - if I can trust Wiki, that is.

The haiku in question could **_not_** have been written by 佐々木禎子{ささきさだこ}. Why
not? That is because Sasaki died in **1955** and the statue was completed in
**1958** to commemorate Sasaki and other kids. Sasaki simply could not have
written a poem inspired by the statue as she never saw it herself.

Secondly, my gut feeling as a Japanese-speaker more than anything. (That means
you can take it or leave it.)

It would be safe to say that the haiku was written by 重本泰彦{しげもとやすひろ} though I
could not find it anywhere online and **_it was written in English in the
first place_**. Thus, there exists no such thing as the Japanese original.
Shigemoto seems to have written many haiku in English.
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