| ID Code | TSAEKI0010 |
|---|---|
| Title | Looking southeast from the Chugoku Shimbun Newspaper Company |
| Photographer | Takashi Saeki |
| Date | Between August 9 and 17, 1945 |
| Location | Kaminagarekawa-cho(present day Ebisu-cho) |
| Distance from hypocenter | 870meters |
| Existence of phorographic nagatives | No |
| Owner | Kyodo News / Hiroshima University Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine |
| Custodian | Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University |
| Description | Looking southeast toward Hiratsuka and Hijiyama hill from the rooftop of the Chugoku Shimbun Newspaper Company's new building. The photo was published as a photograph of the scorched city of Hiroshima with only one chimney left and is considered to be the first photograph to convey the devastation of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to the rest of the country. The chimney belonged to Kubota Honten, a soy sauce brewery in Chigiya-cho, and part of it is on display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. |
| Record of publication in literature, exhibition | Asahi Shimbun (August 19, 1945, Tokyo edition), Shinano Mainichi Newspapers, Kyoto Shimbun, and Kobe Shimbun, etc. (August 20, 1945, editions), Chugoku Shimbun (August 23, 1945, edition). Now on display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. |
| Note | Photo (far right), with four others, making up panoramic photo |