looking for a haiku maybe written by Sasaki Sadako I'm looking for the Japanese text of the following haiku, maybe written by Sasaki Sadako : > Statute of A-bomb child > > she seems as if walking > > after a butterfly I found the English text here. 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). I guess "Statute of A-bomb child" is the translation of "" (seven morae)).

[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 {}. 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 {} 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.