Kyoko Hayashi

was a Japanese writer associated with the Atomic Bomb Literature genre.

Biography Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931 to 1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, Ritual of Death (Matsuri no ba), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize. Hayashi lived near Washington, D.C. from 1985 to 1988.

Selected works Matsuri no ba (Ritual of death), Tokyo: Kodansha, 1975. Shanhai, Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1983. Sangai no ie (三界の家), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1984. Michi (道), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunju, 1985. Tanima (谷間), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1988. Rinbu (輪舞), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1989. Yasuraka ni ima wa nemuritamae (やすらかに今はねむり給え), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990. Seishun (青春), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1994. Bājinia no aoi sora (ヴァージニアの蒼い空), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Matsuri no ba. Giyaman bīdoro (祭の場. ギヤマン ビードロ), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Missheru no kuchibeni (ミッシェルの口紅. 上海), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Nagai jikan o kaketa ningen no keiken (長い時間をかけた人間の経験), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Rinbu. Kashi no ki no tēburu (輪舞. 樫の木のテーブル), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Sangai no ie. Michi (三界の家. 道), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Shizen o kou. Shunkan no kioku (自然を恋う. 瞬間の記憶), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005. Yasuraka ni ima wa nemuritamae. Seishun (やすらかに今はねむり給え. 青春), Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2005.

Awards 1975 Akutagawa Prize for Ritual of Death (Matsuri no ba) 1983 Kawabata Prize for Sangai no ie ("Home in the three worlds") 1990 Tanizaki Prize for Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae (やすらかに今はねむり給え) 2000 Noma Literary Prize for Nagai zikan o kaketa ningen no keiken 2005 Asahi Prize for 林京子全集

Selected works in English translation The Empty Can, trans. Margaret Mitsutani, in Atomic Aftermath: Short Stories about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ed. Kenzaburo Oe. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984; Fire from the Ashes: Japanese Stories about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, London: Readers International, 1985; The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath, New York: Grove Press, 1985. pp. 127–143. From Trinity to Trinity, trans. Eiko Otake, Station Hill, NY: Station Hill Press, 2010. Procession on a Cloudy Day, trans. Hirosuke Kashiwagi, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 25.1 (1993), pp. 58–69. Ritual of Death, trans. Kyoko Selden, Japan Interpreter 12 Winter（1978, pp. 54–93. Anthologized in Nuke Rebuke: Writers and Artists against Nuclear Energy and Weapons, ed. Marty Sklar, Iowa City: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1984. pp. 21–57. Two Grave Markers, trans. Kyoko Selden, The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 18.1 January–March (1986): pp. 23–35. Anthologized in The Atomic Bomb Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, eds. Kyoko and Mark Selden, An East Gate Book, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1989. pp. 24–54. Yellow Sand, trans. Kyoko Selden, in Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction, 1991. pp. 207–216.