焼やけ跡あと世せ代だい

noun

burnt ruins generation; generation of Japanese who were children during WWII

Refers to the cohort born roughly in the early 1930s to early 1940s who experienced wartime devastation as children. Often discussed in cultural and literary contexts.

• 焼やけ跡あと世せ代だいの作さっ家かたちは、戦せん後ごの混こん乱らんを作さく品ひんに描えがいた。

  Writers of the burnt ruins generation depicted the postwar chaos in their works.

• 彼かれは焼やけ跡あと世せ代だいとして、食たべ物ものに苦く労ろうした経けい験けんを語かたった。

  As a member of the burnt ruins generation, he talked about his struggles with food.