Late in this work, the narrator sees a white rainbow, which his manager tells him is a portent of grave misfortune.
One character in this work tells how a man put rice into a pair of boots as he left a train to get back at a soldier for taking up several seats. Late in this work, the narrator sees a white rainbow, which his manager tells him is a portent of grave misfortune. Asajiro, Shokichi, and this novel's protagonist begin to raise carp in order to fill the local lake, which Shokichi expects to give him and his friends the right to fish there without complaint from the other villagers. Iwatake's account of his recovery is used to hearten a girl, who has acquired the same illness years later, though this novel's protagonist suspects Yusako acquired "radiation disease" either from a cut on her arm while crawling under downed power lines or from the title substance, which began falling on the afternoon of August 6. For 10 points, name this novel by Ibuse Masuji, a work about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 
One character in this work tells how a man put rice into a pair of boots as he left a train to get back at a soldier for taking up several seats.
Black Rain [or Kuroi Ame] 