"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 10

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Camphor Trees, 700 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mr. Yasutoshi Horibe
age: 39; occupation: office worker; family: wife
<at that time> age: 6; at home, in the garden (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); mother died; father and elder sister injured.

"When I was playing behind our house, I heard the buzzing of an airplane. When I looked up to see whether the plane was Japanese or American..." (written at age 12)

Dress
Mitsuyo Furukawa (35 at the time) was in her garden (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) watering the vegetables. Although she was badly burned on her chest and arms, she wandered around the scorched land for a week, looking for Mieko, her eldest daughter, who had been mobilized for fire preventin work at Tsurumi-cho. This is the dress she was wearing then.

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