unforgettable fire: pictures drawn by atomic bomb survivors (nhk, 1977)

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Copyright@ 1977 y NHKAll rights reservedunder Intemational and Pan-American Copy-right Conventions. Published in the United Statesby PantheonBooks,a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultane-ously n Canada by Random House ofCanada Limited, Toronto.Originally published in J^pane* asGokuoMitd and in English trans-lation as U1forgettobleie by Nippon Hoso Shuppan KJokai, Tokyo.English translation by World Friendship Center in Hiroshima,supervisedby Houard Schonberger and I-eona RowLIBRARYOFCONGRFSS{A]-OGINGIN PUBLICA]'ION AIAMain entry under titlelUnforgettable fire.

Translation ofGdka o mita.Includesindex.l. Hiroshima-Bombardment, I945-Pictorialworks.,

L N;ppd HosoKyokai.D76725.H6c13 l9B1 940.54'26 B0-8647rsBN -394-51585-4ISBN -394-74823-9pbk.)Manulactured n theUnited StatesofAnrcrrcaFIRSTAMERICAN DITION


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PREFACE

HIROSHIMA N THATDAY

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PREFACE

._- ".lT.:"1:.lal of picruresbout.the_Bombexperiencesdrawnbyrne uryrvorsas tatedbv NioponHosoKyokai1lltUK;,1apanroaa_casting orporation..he imp.ru5 or rhrs roJe.r amewhenonesurvi_. vor brought a hand_drawnpicure to NiJKls Hiroshimu oml. .ff,.collection as ntroducedon tilevision "a ."niut.J uiii. i"u".. Lut,r,..Cntern HiroshimaCity August I to August6, 1975. he exhibitionhallwasilledwithexcitement.,i d..p .^r:,i.". i ".i.iliir" *iin ,r,,:,::,::,"19,*,",J.,,her impressionsadbeen i"J'i" ,i"'rrair"a _.,9u,Ltrr] rrrrcq. rvrore lmpressron notescontinued to come in until morethan ten.notebookswercpiled up. Some r ,r,.r. ".i., ..nJiirri-irr.picturesbe.displayednot only in Japan but Jr" i^i.*in"".J"*"* ,"order hat thiscruelsituationsi,o.,li b.,rid.ly kro*r,.Thirty yeanhaveoassed ince heA-Bo-t *u, a.opp.a. The mem_oryof howthingswerc n Hiroshrmaat that time is beine oreotten.t istneretore eces-sary,toppeal o thepeopleofJapu" urrao?*r"._o.ta tnutthert be no "No More Hiroshimal,-Thl pictires in tfrl, froJ uJ o.,fyuFf,lffJ+yi,:rxtl.itr"Ttii;,i,,i*;*:,:*::*,*il*a rrorld n which rhedif lusiono[ nr,. l"r. ,J", ^.- ' : ; ;*, ^-l_ _ ]Jtenceol all humanity nuclear weapons s threatening the ex$-. The pictures are a vivid documentary ofthe miserablescenes l.that11l.1lpy*n thirtyyears avepassed.he-._r.i.r,1,."rr.J l" ,rr.mrncsot Ihesun/rvors,.arcnforgettablephotographscannotexpresshestrong mpressionshich thesepictures,drawn-by the actual ,ri_iuor.,ffSf We hop that all of youcan urrdentand hehear-t_f.f..i1. ,f ,nsr''vors as you look at the individuar picturesof thi, .olt..iio,.r. wethani thoseof youwho participated ., tt," -o,r"-.r,ii f"i"U, i."i f*Posterity icturesabout theAtomic-Bomb1..*" Iry Ci;i"1,, ""ahelpedn somanydifferentwavs.

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passecl y at a lcisurely pace with a clop-clop noise. Small cloudsof dust rose hcre ancl here among the cror,vded,i le-roofcclhouscs.These shor'ved hat u'ork had begun on pull ing clorvn cvacuatecibuildings o makc compulsory f irclanes. Member.sof the \, \ .omcn'sSocietyo[ Labor Scrvice, National Volt intccrs h-om the suburbandistricts,and junior hieh school students put thcir lunchcs in tht:shadeofnearby tr"ees clore bcginning a lone day of su,caty,clusrywork.

In public off lces anci businesses orkers hacl lrceun thcirjobsafter"theirsccLionchiels irad given their mornins insimctions. Inpublic schoolsmorning assembiics iad begun becauscer-encluringsumner r ' :rcation,stuclents ,r 'ho ad not bet:n cr-ar:uated.rad essorrsthere. Lit t lc t:hi ldren l 'ere busv plavine in the strccts. Thcre\\,erc cvcn lbrcigners in Hir-oshima. Several thousand KoreiLrrsu'ho l iacl lr i :cn takcn liom their country $'ere i{orkins as lbrcecllaborcrs n an armamcnt l ictor-), . Thcre rvercsomc oreign studcntsI iom SoutlteastAsjan countr-ics. And there rvcrc e\,t:nAmericans,PO\V Armv pilots u'ho had been shot doiln. Sudclcnlya Jrt l l rangin the broadcastingdcpartment of NHI{. It u,asa rvarning gi., .rnfrom the Almv I lc:rdquart i:r-s l ' Chugoku District. -I l.re odio ur.r-noun< r began o r-i :ad hc bullet in, "Cliugoku District Arnrv Inl,cr-nration. Tlrrcc eneml' airplanes havc been spotted over thc Saijoarea..." JLrst hcn thcrc r,vas dreadli l sl.rakingand loud crash ofi i 'on anci conctetc. The announccr rvas thrown into thc air.T h e F l a s h : 8 : 1 5Thc A-l lon.rJr, hich u'asnicknamcd "Litt lc l loy,,, was droppecllrom the B 29. I lnola Gay. I t cxploded 570 mcters above thcground r'r ' i th a l ight blue f lash. Thc diarnctcr cl thi: f ircball rvas100 meters and the tcmperaturc at i t s Lcnt r r \ \as 3U0,000"C.Soon aftcr thc explosion black and rl 'hitc smokc cor.crct i l tc u.holccity and rose thousanclsof meters hish. Thc pressurcol ' thc blastdircct ly uncler the centcr of the explosion I,as f irm +.5 to 6.7 tonspcr squarc meter. \Vooden houses r,r, ' i thin radius of trvo ki lo-metcrsol the hypocenter collapsed and complcteiy burned f i-om thervind and hcat. Thc fires continuecl ftrr trvo days. Some peoplervho r,verc car the ccnter of t l ie explosion itcrall t- evaporatcclandonll ' thcir sl iadotvs rcmained; others rvcre turncd to chatred

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corpses. Those who survived were badly burned. Usually therr. loth., -.r. scorched and burned so they wera practically naked'Their skin peeled off and hung down. They rushed to nearby fireDrevention water boxes and river banks seeking water' Iriends'and relat ives trapped under collapsedhouses vere crying lor help'But f lames surrounded them so closely hat thel ' were about to burn'Later large black drops of rain pourecldou'n. It was a deadlyrain u'hich contained mud, ash, and other radioactive fallout 'Through burning flamcs and pouring black rain thcre was an end-less ini of injured people heading lor the outskirtsof thc city' Theburns on thiir hinds madc the skin hang dorvn. Thcir hanclslooked like those of ghosts.ttGive rne water."

The security funclions of the army, policc, prelbcture, and cityagencies practically ceased. Under such circumsrances nredicaltreatmeni uas started bv doctors and nurses who rverc injuredthemselves. Damage to nearb.v army posts \ "as rather sl ight andso soldicrs l iom them first began the relief job. l lospitals soonbecame 1u11,o public schoolsaround the city werc used as first-ajdstat ions. They rverealso crowded by the rush of 'wounded persons'Countless dead bodies and seriously wounded people, who barelvbreathed, were left on the road or the river-banks ol' the city'\ ' , Iedical supplies {'ere used up immediately becauseof the uninr-aeinable number of rvounded persons. The untreated people tookti leir last breath moaning, "Give me u'ater." lVhat is norv calledradiat ion sicknesssoon appcared. Peoplc began suffering lromdiarrhea as if they had dysentery, losing clumps of their hair, anddcveloping purple colored spotson their skin which made them looklikc a map. Such people soon diecl ' their bodies ull ofbig maggotsthey were too weak to remove.Those who were looking lbr their re]at ives rvalked around inthe st i l i smoldering city with the rescue part ies. What thel ' sarvwere dead bodies piled uP on the ground and fi l l ing up the rivers'Figures of mothers who died protcctinpJ heir own children u'ere


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'!vasestablished.When Gensuikyodivided into factions resulting from conflictsover the U. S.-Japan Security Treaty and the resumPtionof nu-clear testing by the Soviet Union, many citizensof Hiroshima werediscouraged and silent. But in August, 1966' their hopcs wcrctekindled by an NHK-Hiroshima television program which at-tempted to answermany simplequestionsabout theA-Bomb explo-sion. How many people were n the hypocentelarea at the time ofthe explosion? Where were they from ? What kind of work didthey do ? What kind of buildings were there ? Growing out ofthis program, elevision.iournalists,cientists t the Researchnstr-tute for Nuciear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University,and a largc.nurnbelof ordin:rr;,citizens,binccl n ir rnovelncnt orecover nformation about and to reproduceon a scalemodel thehypocenter area. The movement would also make an appeal forpeacebased n the survivors' xperiencesf the first A-Bomb explo-sion n history. The City of Hiroshima took over this movementand prepareda report o thc United Nationsaspart of the activiticsof the 30th anniversaryyear. Even aftel careful investigation, lrecstimateof 240,000 asualtiesrom the A-Bomb is not considercdreliable.Lastyear he movement f "Picturesabout heA-Bomb Drarvnby HiroshimaCitizens"was riggcrecl y a singledrawing broughtto NHK-Hiroshima and the enthusiasm f Hiroshima'spcoplc.This is a new civic movementnot seen ince he novement o repli-cate the hypocenterarea. (Sources: A-Bomb Record of Hrro-shima" by Hiroshima City ; "History of Hiroshima Prefccture-A -Bomb MaterialsVolume" by HiroshimaPrelccturc; The A-BombHypoccnter" by Dr. Kiyoshi Shinrizu a largenumbel of drawingscontributedby the citizens.)

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Yokogawa Bridge above 'I-enma Rivcr, August6 , 1945,B : 30 A.M.People ry ing and mo" rn ingw"r . runn ing ro-wards the city. I did not knorv why.Steamengineswere burning at YokogarvaSta-t ion.Tail of corv tied to wire.Skin of girl 's hip was hanging dou'n."My baby is dead, isn't she ?"


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r\t the r\ioi BridgcOn August 9, 19,t5, walked around thecity looking 1br my husband. ' l-hcre u,eremany burned pcrsons at each evacuatroncenter. Thcir injuries r^, 'erc uite extraordi-nar1. I rvaswalking among;many dead peo-ple. I lvas oo shockcd o feel onclinessor mlI u " L , a n d . r w l l i k e l c l l T l r c , i g r h r f al ivinE horseburning was very striking. Thisprcturcshowsonlv a part of Hiroshima. Thcr ' r ' o l c r r r v r . u . r l : k e l r i . l l h J t r i m e .

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Aboul 9 : 00 A.\{ . . August 6, 19,t5 n thc ncigh-lrolhood of Lhc Shinjo Bridge about I ki lo-nlctcr f tom Hiroshirna City.

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I am 78 vcars old. I rvas living at Midori-maclr ion the day of the A-Bomb blast. Around9 r00 A.NL that morning, when I looked out, , rm r , , v i ndn r r ' . . aw seve r . r lw .m , - t r , om inqalong thc strcct one after another toward thcHiroshima Plefectural Hospital. I realizcd forthc first time, as it is sometimes said. that whenpeoplc are very much frightened hair reallvj n - . s t r nd r rpon nnd . The t ' om cn . ha i r r , . " ,in 1ict, standing straight up and the skin o1'their arms rvas peeled off I supposed thcvwere around 30 vcars old.

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We were on our way home. We werewalking along the streetcar line at the foot ofHijiyama. Wherever we went we saw deadhorsesand bodies lying here and there. Theremaining fires were giving off a lot of smoke.Not a soul was in sight. It was when I crossedMiyuki Bridge that I saw ProfessorTakenakastanding at the foot of the bridge. He wasalmost naked, wearing nothing but shorts, andhe had a rice ball in his right hand. Beyondthe streetcar ine, the northern area was coveredby red fire brirnir-rgagainst the sky. Far awayfrom the line, Ote-machi was also a sea of fire.

That dav Professor Takenaka had notgone o Hiroshima Universityand the A-f iombexploded when he was at home, He tried torescuehis wife who was trapped under a roof-beam but all his efforts were in vain, Thefire was threatening him also. His wife plead-ed, "Run away, dear !" He was forced todesert his wife and escape rom the fire, Hewas now at the foot of Miyuki Bridge.But I wonder how he came to hold thatrice ball in his hand ? His naked figure,standing there before the flames with that riceball looked to me as a symbol of the modcsthope of human beings,

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The day the A-Bomb was droppedIt was about 9 : 30 A.M., August 6, 1945.While taking my severelywounded wife out tothe riverbank by the sidc ofthe hill ofNakahiro-mzrchi, I was horrified, indeed, at the sight ofa stark naked man standing in the rain withhis eyeball n his palm. He looked to be ingreat pain but there was nothing that I coulddo for him.I wonder what became of him. Eventoday, I vividly remembcr the sight. It wassimply miserable.

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SueniKajiy agt 69 (256)her body because cr front sideand her bab1.rcmai rc r - l n t rurned. 5he r r r . uncor r . rnu. .I wasafizLid hc rvould die soonand thc babv'smilk rvould be stoppcd. l f the baby'had becnsavcd,and brought up hc lr, 'ouldbe 30 or 31norv. This is rvhat 1 szuv : 30 P.N{.,ArrgusL7 .

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Since I r'r'as at school in Ujina I had Lrcenexposcd to radiat ion sepalatcly from my par-ents. Thc next morning at 7: 30 I startedfrom school toward the ruins of mv house inNobori-cho. I passed b1' Hi j iyama. Therewere ferv pcople to be sccn in the scorched icld.I sarv for thc f i rst t ime a pi le of burned bodiesin a water tank by the entrance to the broad-cast ing stat ion. T'hen I was suddenly fr ighr-ened bt 'a tcrr ible sight on the strcct, l0 to 50meters from Shukkeien Garden. There wasa charred body of a woman standing frozen ina runnins posture with one leg l i f ted and herbabl t ight lv clutched in hcr arms. Who onearth could shc bc ? This cruel sight st i l lv ividly rerrains in my mind.


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About l0 : 00 A.M., August 7, at the yardof the school dormitory of Shinshu Buddhistsect in Minami Kannon-machi three peoplewho looked like refugees were lound dead asshown in this picture.A woman who seemed to be the motherofa baby was dead. Her arms were curved asif still holding her baby. Her body was swol-len very round. Her face, looking upward,had the expressionofsomeonc who was havingclifficulty in brcathing.


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A u g u . t7 . 1 9 4 5 b o u r : 0 0 A . M .Aioi BridgeIt was too horrifying to look into the river.I praycd for thesedead people.'llhe area was deserted.This horse's intestines were laying on theground, clear and pufly,3 centimeters n dia-meter by about 2 meters n length.Freight rom horsccartswas scattered ver theroad.Streetcar racksStreelcarsurned over.My fifth son was in the army hospital and atthis spot @ I gave up looking for him.Flattenedconcretebridge rail ing


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The condition in which I found my 40 yearold wife on tire morning of August I l, 1945.She was badly burnecl and had developed run-ning sores.I was a soldier and l-rad eft for Takamatsuin Shikoku by orders of the Army on August 5.So I retulned home to Ushita in HiroshimaCity.1. She ooked ust l ike a ghostbecause ereyelids were badly burncd and swollen.

Fu,araroTantminc c?77 9A02. FIer lips, swollen and protruding, madeher mouth look liLe a monkey's.j. Aithough she wes under mosquito ner-ting, the skin of her whole burned bodyon which maggots were breeding hadthe appearanceof the crust of a crab.S l re d ied on ScptemberB. 1945.even

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uIryWffiWffiIffithe A-Bomb. Since I did not recognize himas my neighbor, I asked who he was. Heanswered hat he was Mr. Sasaki, the son ofMr. Enriosuke Sasaki, who had a lumbershop n Funairi Town. That morning he hadbeendoing volunteer labor serviceevacuatingthe housesnear the Prelectural Office in KakoTown. He had been burned black all overand had startedback to his home in Funairi.He looked miserable burned sore,and nakedwith only piecesofhis gaiters trailing behind ashewalked. Only the part of his hair coveredbv his soldier's hat was left, as if hc was rvear-ing a bowl. When I touchedhim, his burnedskin slipped off. I did not know what to do,so I askeda passingdriver to take him to EbaHospital.Soon afterward, I met the wife of myneighbor who had also been injured by theA-Bomb. Although her husbandand I tricdtohelpher shedied on rheway to Eba Hospital.

Another neighbor could not walk becauseherlegs were wounded and looked like pomegran-ates.Wehad to take her to the hospitalby hold-ing her under her arms. The hospital roomwas full of wounded people. Theie I foundMr. Sasaki whom I had met that morning.His entire body, except for hrs eyes, wascovered n'ith bandages. Sometime later Imet his mother who wasverv grateful to me fcrrhaving helped her son. But she told me hehad died just after noon. I was very sorry tohear this.I left the hospital and went across theriver near the Hiroshima Commercial HighSchool with my neighbors. I walked towardsItsukaichi Town where there was a shelter andarrived at the Itsukaichi Town Office in the.evening.Every year, August 6, I remember the timeof the A-Bomb explosion. I can never forgetthe tenor and horror of the Atomic Bomb.


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-l'he corpse lying on its back on the roaclhad bee kil led immediatelywhen the A-Bombwas dropped. Its hand was lifted to the sk1'zrnd he fingers u'ere burning rvith blue flamcs.The fingers rverc shortcncd to one-third ancldistorted. A dark Jiquid \{ 'as unning to thcground along the hand. This hand musthave embraceda child bcfolc.

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Aueust9On the west embankment of a mil i tarytraining ficld was a young boy four or fiveyears old. He was burned black, lying on hisback, with his arms pointing toward heaven.

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This book contains 104 pictures of a total of 975 collectedduring two months rom June to August 1974 n responseo anNHI( television ppealentitled "Let us Leave or Posterity icturesabout the Atomic-BombDrawn by Citizens". None of thesepic-tures was drawn by a professionalartist. They were done by oldpcople such as thosewe passby in the city of Hiroshima and sitnext to on the bus. N{ost of them had never drawn a picture sincetheir graduation from elementaryschool. In the pictures thepersonal experiencesof the Atomic Bomb are shown. They arenot merely the records and materiah of that day thirty yearsago.Rather, eachpictureechoeshe heartfeltcry of someonewho hasbccn enduring sorrow and sullering for thirty yearssince he day theAtomic Bomb wasdropped.It Started frorn a Sing1e Picture

One day in May, 1974Mr. Iwakichi Kobayashi,an old manof 77 wearinggeta,visited he NHK studio n Hiroshima He ha.da singlepicture rvith him and said that the T. V. drama "Hatokono Umi," then on the air, remindedhim of the Atomic Bomb explo-sion. He showedus his picture titled "At about 4 P M., August6, 1945,nearYorozuyoBridge". In the simplyand vividly drawnpicture were countlessnumbers of people su'ffering rom burns andihirsting for water. There was also a figure of a young ladycoveredwith a burned sheetof tin-roofing lying on the river bank.Mr. Kobayashiexplained hat he wasat the railway stationwhenthe Atomic Bomb exploded. He was ooking for his only son whenhe witnessedhe scenehe had drawn. Usually we think of theYorozuyo Bridge as an ordinary bridge we cross and we do notpay any attention to it becauseHiroshima has many.riverswithiimilar bridges.. So we were awed by the extraordinary power ofNtr. Kobayashi's picture and by the vividnessof his memory evenafter almost thirty years. How different this was from understand-ing the Atomic Bomb experienceby reading a story. The pictureappealed irectly o our senses.Mr' Kobayashi aid o us, "Evennow I can not erase he scene rom my memory. Before my deathI wanted to draw it and leave t lor others." Having heard hiswordswe made up our minds to ask he peoplewho experienced heAtomic Bomb o draw pictures f what theyremembered n thatday

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u'hich no other pcople reall l ' knolv. Just as Mr. I(obayashi was77 yearsolcl l 'c kncn' that othcr suilercrso1'the Atomic Bomb rverelapidly aeinu. Iven in Hiroshima the number of people who didnot cxpcricnce tlre Atoinic Bonb had incrcased to almost half thcpopulation. If tLrc Atomic Bonb cxperience was not recordedsoon, it rvoulcl aclc awav l. i th this one gencration.NFIII broaclcasted n Junc, 1974, a local mornine proeranrt it lecl ". '\ Singlc Picture" which rvas based on VIr. Kobayashi'scirarving. \\I ith that prosraol \!e started an appeal "Let us Leavt:lor Posterity Picturcs o1'the Atomic Bomb Drawn by Cit izcns, ' .We could not prcdict rvlrt ' thcl the suff i :rurs, specially hcoid people,rvould clrar.v ny pictules as thr:y did not usuaily clrar,v.The Movernent SpreadsAs soon as tlre program enciccl. ictures werc collectedonc a{teranother. It rvas urs I 'a clam had broken. Half the pictures lverescnt by nrail rvhilc thc othcr half u'erebrougl. i tdirectly to NHK, someb,volcl people 'ho could hardly I'aik. Somc traveled a Iong l'ay tothc stuclioancl ue hardly had time to rccci\ :eand thank them prop-clly. Onc saicl, "I cannot lorgct this scenc." Others shotvecltheir pictures cxplaininu then fcverishly, somctimes n t i :ar.s. Thepictures rvcrc drarvn r,yithall kinds ol tools such as pencils, cri iyorrs,rvater colors, magic pens, colorec' lpcncils, ancl India ink. Thepeoplc useclalmost any kincl ol papcr they could f ind such as drau-ing paper, backs ofcalendars, adr,ert isinubil ls, and paper usecl orcovering sliding doors. Some clrclv the picturcs on thc backs ofchildrcn's sr:ribbledpapcls, probably thoseof thcir grandchildren.N{any trained errt istshave drar,vn hr: miserable sceneof thatday. But did you knorv that so many orclinary people coulcl drawpictures l ikc these ? Iiven in Hiroshima it is said that people areapt to lbrgct thcir expericnces ol' many long ycars ago. ThcscPictures, hou'cvcr. tcll us that survivors cannot forget thcir expe|-ences.

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The Message the Pictures Wish to ConveyThe Assembly Hall used lor the exhibition should have becntwice the size originally planned for, So many pictures were sentin and even during the exhibit ion many more pictures arrived. Anumber of pictures were drawn at the Assembly Hall. The plann-ed space was entirely f i l led, and later the walls were fi l led lromfloor to t ei ling.While we watched people continue to bring in pictures duringthe filming of the television program about the A-Bomb, \,vewon-dered why so many pictures were drawn in spite of their crudetechniques. Then wc realized that many explanationson the pic-tures ended with the words "gashoo" or "gashoonembutsu" mean-ing praying hands or lolded hands in prayer lor the dead. "I amnot good at paint ing. I am very sorry that I couldn't make a prc-ture scroll which would really tel l you of the experience hat I hadat that t ime. However, today I drew a picture and wrote an ex-planation while in lront of a Buddhist altar", Mrs. Kinu Kusataexplained on her picture.The pictures convey wltat the survivors would l ike, known thatin drawing the picture it led them to make amends individuallylor the people who died that day and to relieve the anguish of theirsouls. This was related to the posit ive wish that others shouldundclstand the truth ot ' that day. As N,Irs. I 'suneyo Masada, agc75, explained ol the many blameless people who wanted water,writhed in agony, and died, "I'm an old woman and not good atwrit ing and drawing but in spite of that I was struck with the ideaofdrawing a picture and rvrit ing an explanation so that many peoplecan understand my experience." Many pictures were drawn by

people in their sickbeds. IVIrs.Katsu Kawano, age 82, drew fivepictures with her palsied hands. "I drew a picture with my dis-abled hands. The scene shows only a part of the misery in rnymind lrom the actual experience." When we went to interuewMrs. Hamano Matsushita about the explanation of her picturcsshe was seated in her work room and said with great ir i i tatron,"This picture could not possibly tel l you all my experiences.Even if I drew one hundred pictr-rres,hey could not tel l you of mycxperiences " As they drew their pictures, the suffererswere im-patient and dissatisf ied because hey could not express heir realfeelings. Drawing reminded them of their painful experiencesof30 years ago. "My hands are tremblins and my heart throbs asI think of how I should explain the reality of that situation so that

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you can really understand," said Mrs. Michiyo Azuma, age 68.While we collected information from the survivorswe were deeplyimpressedby each of their pictures. These pictures cried directlyto each viewer of the pain and destruction suffered. They did sonot because l thei r artistry but because f the emotionsexpressed.Conclusion"Thesepictures repoor n quality fyoujudge thern or artisticquality and techniques. We don't want you to see hem as exhi-bits in a museum. We want to tell you that these hings actuallyhappened, hat people eally died in terrible pain." So wrote 59year old Mr. Kazuo Kambara.During the short time in which thesepictures were drawn thespreadofnuclear weaponshas accelerated. Nuclear testshavebeenmade in many countries of the world including India, which re-cently conducted ts fiIst nuclear test. But through the picturesofthe A-Bomb sufferers, outsiders can be opened to the long closedrvorld of the first victims of nuclearwar and learn that thesepicturescondemn the folly of nations blindly pursuing a nuclear arms race.Thesepictures should not be ignored. They will be valuable onlywhen widely shown to people who do not fully understand theAtomic Bomb. We hope that you will grasp the heartfelt cries ofcvery picture Ibr they are truly the starting point of an appeal forPeace..We started to receive pictures again beginning this April,1975. We received300 more picturesby the end of May andwhile we were preparing his bookmany morc pictureswere beingdrawn. Mr. YoshioHamada (p. 101)sentus ivepictures hisyearalthough he is still bedridden. Mrs. Haruko Ogasawara p.43)alsosent us 5omepictures. She wrote, "Someofthe A-Bomb suf-ferersare still ill from ladiation sickness. I drew pictures again thisyear because want to keephanding down that horrible scene fthe A-Bombed city wl.rich will remain in my memory as long as Ilive."For one year, startingwith the picture drawn by Mr. IwakichiI{obayashi we have continucd collecting data for our televisronprogram. We have been encouraged by the many pictures sentto us and are very sorry that we cannot show you all of them. Wetoo want to pray for th great number of peoplewho died on thatday. We express ur deepappreciation o thosewho drewpicturesand encour:rgedus.

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nari lc zrgcAkiyama, Kazuo 66Enseki, Fumie 56lruj imoto, Jinichi 4iFujimoto, Shiro 66Fukui, Irvao 6lHamada, Yoshio 58Hara, Yoshimi 58Harada, Tomoc 52Higaki, Kimiyo 76Hilonaka, Torako 63Ichida, Yuji 64Ikeda, Yoshimi 5lInouc, Kiyoshi 51Inouc, N{ikio 12Inoue, Tadao 67Ishii, Rei 48Ishizu, Kazuhilo 6i l1to, Kanichi 72Jitsukuni, Magoichi 69Kajiya, Suemi 69Kajiyama, ShipJcm:rtsud icd in 197.1Katagiri, Sawami 76Karvakemi, Kizo i IKimura, Sadako 17Kiyoyoshi, Goro 80Kobayashi,. lwakichi 8L)Kobavashi, Masao 77Konishi, -l'ornoko 58Kusata, Kinu 73Masukawa, Kishie

d icd in 1975Matsurnuro, Kazuod ied in 197Nlatsushita,Hamano 73N,I ichitsuji,Yoshiko 5lMitsuta, Yoshitada 73Motooka, Shigcko 64

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nill[(i agc pagcN'Ioto1'ama, npin 76 59Nagara, Kishiro 72 .10, 4lNakagarva,Kcn 6.t 90Nishida, Kinzo B2 +8Nishida, Tcrurni 65 +9Nisli ioki, Kiy'oko 39 55Nirva, Hisashi 93 6+Ogasarr"ara, lzrluko 45 +3,++, +5Og:rwa, Sagami 60 78Ojir i , Tsutomu 36 1,1Okazaki, Flidchiko irl l 19, 102Sakai, l akehiko 53 20Segawa,Kikuno 69 75Shigemoli, Asa i j l 4lShindo, Hiroshi 65 5ttSuma, l 'usako 1+ 9l' l 'akaLara,Yosli io 66 BoTakakura, Akiko 51 96'Iakeuchi, Hatsuji 60 28Tamaru, Yoshiaki 66 Iu'I animine, Fusataro 77 B7Tokutomi, Yoshiko 66 92, 93Tornita, , \ tsuko 45 3lUeno, Kivoaki +6 79Ucsugi, ,\yako 77 35Unc, N4asato BtJ 68Yamada, Sun.rako 51 17, 56Yanagata, Yasuko 49 52, 53Yamamoto, OLoiciri 87 94, 95Yamamoto, Sctsuko 16 22, 23Yamamura, \4asako 67 30Yamaoka, Iumiko 50 BB, 89Yamashita, \4asato 52 103,104Yoshirnoto,Sator-u 1+ 84Watanabe Jun 4B 100Wataoka,Junjiro 78 97Namc u'ithheld bv requcsl 21, 25Name unknou'n 5+,62. 67(in alphabctical rder')

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unforgettable fire: pictures drawn by atomic bomb survivors (nhk, 1977)

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