Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Cover of the first tankōbon edition of the manga, published by Futabasha
夕凪の街 桜の国 (Yūnagi no machi, Sakura no kuni)
Genre	Historical, Drama
Manga
Written by	Fumiyo Kōno
Published by	Futabasha
English publisher	NA Last Gasp UK Last Gasp
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Manga Action
Original run	September 2003 – July 2004
Volumes	1
Audio drama
Station	NHK
Released	5 August 2006
Episodes	1
Novel
Written by	Kei Kunii
Published by	Futabasha
Published	3 July 2007
Live-action film
Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Directed by	Kiyoshi Sasabe
Released	28 July 2007
Runtime	118 minutes

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Japanese: 夕凪の街 桜の国, Hepburn: Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni^?) is a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno. The two connected stories were first published in Japan by Futabasha in Weekly Manga Action in 2003 and 2004, then collected in a single tankōbon volume in 2004. The story is about a family of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The author based the characters on people who were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms was adapted as a live-action film directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe released in 2007, called Yunagi City, Sakura Country in English. It has also been adapted as a novel by Kei Kunii and as a radio drama produced in 2006.

The manga has received international praise for its simple but beautiful artwork and its quiet but "humane" anti-war message. It received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award. Kumiko Aso won several acting awards for her portrayal of Minami Hirano, one of the two protagonists, in the film adaptation.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms comprises two stories, "Town of Evening Calm" and "Country of Cherry Blossoms".