Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 Origami Cranes
Sadako was just two years old when Little Boy’s detonation knocked her out of a window in her family’s home near Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Her mother, believing Sadako was dead, raced outside, where she was surprised her daughter was apparently just fine. But ten years later, Sadako became one of more than 400,000 hibakusha—bomb-affected people—whose lives were drastically changed by nuclear war. During her battle against leukemia in August 1955, Sadako learned from her roommate that a Japanese legend promised that anyone who folded a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. So she set about folding paper—paper which was in short supply. But friends brought her paper from school. That fall, after partaking of tea and rice, she spoke her last words: “It’s tasty.” Classmates brought the origami cranes to the necessary thousand, which were buried with Sadako.
On July 25, 1945, Harry Truman had set down in his diary that whatever Little Boy destroyed, “The target will be a purely military one.” Because of crosswind, however, Little Boy missed its target—Aioi Bridge—by about 800’ and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic, killing or injuring 90% of Hiroshima’s doctors and 93% of its nurses. Killed instantly by the blast and the subsequent firestorm were about 80,000 people; possibly 20,000 military were killed or injured. The blast was deemed very inefficient, only 1.7% of its material having fissioned. At Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane; at its base is the inscription, “This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.”
The cache is hidden at N 39 32.ABC W 76 59.DEF.
ABC = the number of cranes Sadako was able to make before her untimely death PLUS two
DEF = the sum of the numerical equivalents of the 7-letter Japanese word for paper (or folded) crane MINUS the checksum of the 4 digits in Sadako's birth year
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