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ID Code YMATSUSHIGE0003
Title Barbershop with the window frame blown off
Photographer Yoshito Matsushige
Date Around 2 p.m., August 6, 1945
Location Midori-machi
Distance from hypocenter 2800meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Chugoku Shimbun
Custodian Japan Photo Archive
Description A barbershop in Midori-machi (now Nishimidori-machi in Minami Ward) destroyed by the blast, with the window frame blown off and the interior, including mirrors, shattered. It was the home-cum-shop of Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer who took this picture. The barbershop was run by his younger sister and her husband, and Sumie, Matsushige's then 29-year-old wife, who appears in the scene, helped them with the business. Sumie was pregnant at the time and gave birth to their second daughter the following year. His eldest daughter and parents were evacuated to Omishima Island in Ehime Prefecture at the time.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in photographic negative database of Japan Photo Archive, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima
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