Pictures of the Atomic Bombing Complete
－High school students depict the atomic bombing in pictures－
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Since 2007, this Foundation has worked with students from Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi Senior High School's Comprehensive Creative Expression Course to produce Pictures of the Atomic Bombing.
The students work together with this Foundation's A-bomb witnesses to depict scenes from the time of the bombing that remain in the memories of the witnesses.
From 2015, 12 witnesses worked on the pictures with 30 students, graduates and teachers divided into 12 groups, and as of July 2016 they had completed 35 pictures.
At the completion exhibition held in the Motomachi High School Exhibition Gallery on July 4, 12 A-bomb witnesses attended, together with the students who created the paintings, other students from the Creative Expression Course, and members of this Foundation and Motomachi High School.
The student who produced a picture of a mother carrying her dead child on her back said
"I wanted to depict a memory that doesn't disappear even after 70 years. It was tough drawing the expression on the dead child's face."
Another student who drew a huge blaze that had resulted from a fireball of nuclear explosion said
"I had never seen a fireball so it was hard to create an image of what it was like. I did some research at the Peace Memorial Museum."
They spoke about the difficulty of trying to depict the experiences of the A-bomb witnesses in their pictures.
The Pictures of the Atomic Bombing preserve the devastation of Hiroshima after the bombing in pictures.
They are being used to provide people with a deeper understanding of the A-bomb experience, and are being made use of to communicate the reality of the damage of the bombing to the next generation, in talks given by hibakusha, lectures to pass on the A-bomb experience by A-bomb Legacy Successors (A-bomb experience memory-keepers), and other activities.
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'A mother removes maggots from the back of her child's neck'
by Yurino Kubo (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Lee Jongkeun (A-bomb witness)
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'Girl asking for help from the midst of the flames'
by Ai Okashima (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Emiko Okada (A-bomb witness) |
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'Experiencing black rain in front of my house'
by Tsukiho Ichikawa (2nd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Keiko Ogura (A-bomb witness)
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'Flash'
by Minami Ogawa (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Sadae Kasaoka (A-bomb witness)
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'My friend and I trapped under a building'
by Maika Takahashi (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Yoshiko Kajimoto (A-bomb witness)
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'Mother carrying her dead child on her back'
by Kana Tsumura (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Hiroko Kishida (A-bomb witness)
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'Whirlwind of flames hits the temple'
by Haruka Imamura (2nd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Yoshinori Kuniwake (A-bomb witness)
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'Blackened man resting in front of guardian deity to preserve the life of children (at Saigoku Kaido)'
by Yuki Kawasaki (2nd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Yasuko Kondo (A-bomb witness)
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'Not knowing where to flee, looking for water – everyone died gathered around the firefighting water tank'
by Mikae Okamoto (graduate, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Yasusuke Tagawa (A-bomb witness)
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'Crawling out from the rubble'
by Yume Sugie (2nd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Hiroshi Harada (A-bomb witness)
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'Huge blaze viewed from the Eastern Drill Ground'
by Nanako Ishida (2nd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Sadao Yamamoto (A-bomb witness)
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'Man with horrible burns'
by Kazuma Yamano (3rd year student, Motomachi High School Comprehensive Creative Expression Course) and Reiko Yamamoto (A-bomb witness)
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