Peace Child of Hiroshima

Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the bomb fell on Hiroshima. A decade later the radiation returned as leukemia, and from her hospital bed she began folding paper cranes — an old Japanese belief holds that a thousand of them earn a wish. She died in 1955, twelve years old, the cranes unfinished by some tellings and finished by others. This bronze of her, raised at the University of Utah in 1991, echoes the monument in Hiroshima's Peace Park. People still leave folded cranes at her feet, a child's plea against the weapon that killed her.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 1.0 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.1 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 1.7 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.9 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• The David Eccles Story — steps away
• John Rockey Park Statue — 0.4 mi
• James E. Talmage Building — 0.4 mi
• Keith M. Engar — 0.4 mi