| Description |
Looking south-south-east toward the hypocenter from north-north-west (from the right bank of the Honkawa River). In the vicinity, non-wooden buildings barely escaped collapse, but combustible materials were all burned. Center left is the Hiroshima Prefectural Commerce Association, whose glass windows and window frames were blown off. In front of the association building, on the left bank of the Honkawa River, two shacks stand, showing the first steps of A-bomb survivors to settle down. A white torii (a shrine gate) on the left is the Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine’s O-torii Gate, which was moved to the east entrance of Hiroshima Castle after the atomic bombing. In the background, from left: the Hiroshima branch of Sumitomo Bank, the Hiroshima branch of Chiyoda Life Insurance Company, Hiroshima Prefectural Commerce Association, Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (the A-bomb Dome) and Chugoku Haiden(present-day Chugoku Electric Power Coｍpany) and the Fuel Hall. The river in the foreground is the Honkawa River. |
