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Natsu no Hana ( Summer Flowers ), his best-known work, for which he was awarded the first Takitaro Minakami Prize, was completed by August 1946 but not published until June 1947.

Two further sections of the work were later published: “ From the Ruins ” (“ Haikyou kara ”) in 1947, and “ Prelude to Annihilation ” (“ Kaimetsu no joukyoku ”) in 1949.

In works such as Summer Flowers and Chinkonka ( Requiem, 1949 ), Hara describes and relates his terrifying experience of the atomic bombing.

He also produced many poems on the same theme, for which he is perhaps better known in Japan.