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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code GE27-28
Creator Hiroshi Shindo
Age at the Time 33
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/7
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 490m
Location Peace Memorial Park vicinity
Size (H×W) (cm) 25.5×36
Description A girl who died wearing a new yukata (cotton kimono) with a flower pattern
490m from the hypocenter, in front of Tsuda Tobacco, Tenjin-machi (Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku)
August 7, 1945, around 9:00 a.m.
Hiroshi Shindo (33 at time of bombing, 62 at time of drawing)
Explanation in picture
The corpse of a girl about five years old. My eye was drawn by the new flower-pattern yukata she was wearing.

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