Artists Kazuo Kikuchi and Kiyoshi Ikebe collaborated to create this chilling sculpture at the Peace Memorial Park of children clinging to the side of a bomb. On top is a girl with a crane above her head. This represents Sadako Sasaki, a 12 year old who died from leukemia resulting from radiation poisoning. In a wish for peace, she folded 1,000 origami cranes before she died. Visitors typically leave paper cranes around the memorial in her honor and for all of the children who perished from the two atomic bombings.
