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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code GE19-15
Creator Sen Sugimoto
Age at the Time 49
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/8
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 370m~620m
Location Peace Memorial Park vicinity
Size (H×W) (cm) 28×63
Description Ruins of Denpukuji Temple, soldier lifting corpses from the river
Drawing / Sen Sugimoto
August 8, 1945 Approx. 370m from the hypocenter Zaimoku-cho (now Nakajima-cho)
Sen Sugimoto (then 49) entered Hiroshima on the 8th looking for her brother-in-law Shodo and his wife Yoshiko. The rivers were full of bodies. She walked through a ruined city still strewn with bodies. When she finally arrived at the spot where the house should have been, not a trace was left.

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