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ID Code TKAWAMOTO0005
Title Eikaikaku building
Photographer Toshio Kawamoto
Date Around the end of 1945
Location Higashisenda-machi
Distance from hypocenter 1600meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description In 1915, the Shoshi alumni association for graduates of the Hiroshima Higher Normal School constructed a two-story, gothic-looking western-style building made of brick in commemoration of the transfer of Tokiyuki Hojo, the first president of the school. The building was donated to the school and used as a museum for education. The building collapsed, leaving only the east and west walls standing in parallel facing the direction of the hypocenter. Rear right, is Hiroshima University of Literature and Science.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in the “Peace Database” of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website,The photo collection “The Moment of Hiroshima’s Destruction”
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