Tamiki Hara was born in Hiroshima in November 1905. Son of a large family, well-off, he became interested in letters from a young age. He graduated in English Literature at the prestigious University of Keio, where he began to write poetry, very influenced by authors such as Saisei Murou and Paul Verlaine. Of sensitive and timid personality, although given to the dandismo and to frequent houses of prostitutas, politically it was jeopardize with the movements of left. He would abandon all political militancy in the early thirties, after repeatedly giving his bones in jail. He married in 1933, a year after a failed suicide attempt. Dedicated to writing poetry and nouvelles, he moved to Funabashi to teach English. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1944, after a long period of illness. A year later he decided to return to Hiroshima, just to live in the first person the explosion of the atomic bomb in his parents' house, and to survive it. These two traumatic experiences constituted the central axis of his literary production. Summer Flowers (Natsu no Hana), his best-known work, awarded the Takitaro Minakami Prize, was written in the month of August 1946, but was not published until June 1947. Tamiki Hara would close his famous cycle dedicated to the bomb of Hiroshima with De las ruinas (Haikyou kara, 1947) and Prelude to annihilation (Kaimetsu no joukyoku, 1949), works, all of them, included in this volume. Tamiki Hara wrote a lot of poems on the same subject, for which he became extremely famous in Japan. His final work, The Country My Heart Desires (Shingan no kuni, 1951), can be considered his literary testament, as well as his suicide note. Indeed, shortly after writing it, Tamiki Hara threw herself into the train tracks in Tokyo. It was March 13, 1951, ten months after the start of the Korean War. His friends paid for the construction of a monument next to the place where the citadel of Hiroshima was originally built, but soon the memorial had to be moved from site, since people were dedicated to playing target shooting with him, which made It will be damaged several times. At the moment it is next to the Genbaku Dom, the commemorative cupola of the launching of the first atomic bomb.