"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

Clicking on [BIG] sign will activate its external viewer image (JPEG).

Photo Set 18

[BIG] (364K)

Formerly municipal fuel administration office; now Bureau of City Planning, in Peace Memorial Park, 300 meters from the hypocenter.

[BIG] (270K)

Mr. Osamu Kataoka
age: 45; occupation: university professor; family: wife
<at that time> age: 13; at school (800 meters from the hypocenter); father and elder brother died; mother and two elder sisters injured.

"I ran to the edge of the pool. What did I see there? A drowned classmate, who was burned all over. Another classmate was trying to put out a fire on a friend's clothes with his own spouting blood." (written at age 17)

Suitcase

Tadayori Kihara (50 at the time) was at the Kyobashi Bridge, 1,200 meters from the hypocenter, on a bicycle with this suitcase. Unable to stand the heat, he jumped into the rive to cool off. After being treated at a friend's house, he returned home. He died in 1967.

Photo Sets: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #19 #20