the Special Exhibit
Photos by Hajime Miyatake: Injured Victims
Foot of Sumiyoshi Bridge
In the tumult following the bombing, places where the seriously injured clustered were turned into relief stations and teams of relief workers were sent to them. The relief station in the Sumiyoshi Bridge area was likely set up merely because the recent building demolition project had created a large open space that many victims managed to reach before they collapsed.
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An emergency relief station and cremation site near the foot of Sumiyoshi Bridge
Approx. 1,360m from the hypocenter, Kako-machi (now, Sumiyoshi-cho)
The shacks lining the road are relief stations hastily erected. When Miyatake snapped the photo, the relief station had already been relocated and relief activities had ceased. In the foreground, a makeshift crematorium spreads across space that had been opened by demolishing homes. Bone fragments are visible in the closest pile of cremation debris. Under the line of tin sheets further away lie corpses awaiting cremation.

Family Returning from the Hospital
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Family heading home after out-patient hospital treatment
Approx. 2,350m from the hypocenter, Minami-machi 2-chome
The photo shows the family going "home" after treatment, with the Hiroshima Regional Monopoly Bureau in the background. Burned on her left arm and both legs, the mother is unable to walk. The daughter (then, six years old) is burned on her left arm and face. Her bandaged head, her face entirely lathered with white ointment and so swollen she cannot see-all tug at the heart.
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Corpse lying under tin sheet
Approx. 1,360m from the hypocenter, Kako-machi (now, Sumiyoshi-cho)
Many bodies floated to the Sumiyoshi Bridge, where they were pulled out. This photo shows one of these corpses. How to identify the age or gender of a hairless, swollen, and discolored corpse?
The moorings next to the foot of Sumiyoshi Bridge
Approx. 1,290m from the hypocenter, Kako-machi (now, Sumiyoshi-cho)
The blast had splintered the boats, and pieces of smashed boats and wood floated downstream, jamming into the slips. The injured were brought to the foot of Sumiyoshi Bridge and carried by Army Marine Headquarters boats to Ujina or Ninoshima Island.
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An Exhibition of Photographs
by Hajime Miyatake and
Eiichi Matsumoto-Hiroshima
after the Atomic Bombing
  Introduction
Photos by Hajime Miyatake: Injured Victims
    * Entering Hiroshima
    * Fukuya Department Store as Relief Station
    * Truck Carrying the Injured
    * An emergency relief station and cremation site near the foot of Sumiyoshi Bridge
    * Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital in Turmoil
    * Marks of the Blast
    * In the Ruins
  Photos by Eiichi Matsumoto: The Destroyed City
    * The Hypocenter and Vicinity
    * Kamiya-cho and Hondori
    * Moto-machi
    * Nobori-cho
    * Senda-machi and Minami-machi
    * Hijiyama and Dambara
  Conclusion
       
  Retarn to TOP