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Downstream from Motoyasu Bridge, Nakajima-honmachi, looking south

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ID Code SHAYASHI0136
Title Downstream from Motoyasu Bridge, Nakajima-honmachi, looking south
Photographer Shigeo Hayashi
Date Between October 1 and 10, 1945
Location Nakajima-honmachi
Distance from hypocenter 160meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Downstream, on the west side of Motoyasu Bridge in Nakajima-honmachi. From the left: the Hiroshima branch of Hiroshima Prefectural Nogyokai (present-day Japan Agricultural Cooperatives); Chugoku Haiden’s head office; Hiroshima City Asano Library; Hiroshima City Hall; Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, and Chugoku Haiden’s Otemachi substation. Four U.S. carrier-based Grumman fighter bombers are flying overhead. In the rear are Kanawajima Island, Etajima Island, Ninoshima Island and so on. The burned area in the foreground is Nakajima-honmachi. On the left side, near the riverbank are the ruins of Sakura yu, a public bath. The short wall to the right side is the ruined Harada Surgery building.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in the “Peace Database” of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website
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