Let's look at the Special Exhibit

Listening to Shigeo Hayashi

Courtesy of Iwanami Shoten
This video was shot in 2001 at Shigeo Hayashi's home for the CD to be called Iwanami's Museum for Peace CD-ROM. Hayashi shares his memories about shooting the panoramic photos and his thoughts about peace. Like the Tokyo native he is, Hayashi wears his emotions on a face that alternately sunny and tearful.

[This video will be included in the DVD Peace Archives Hiroshima-Nagasaki be published by Iwanami Shoten in July 2007.]

Conclusion

Hayashi's photos convey what is visible to the eye, but they go beyond that to stir the imagination. Superficially quiet scenes evoke for us people enveloped in swirling flames, people collapsing in screams. The spirit of photographer Shigeo Hayashi enables this level of communication.
In Hiroshima, Hayashi walked around the city all day on the strength of a single rice ball. He defied the occupation army's order and preserved his film. The film and photos entrusted to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum are more than a precious record of the bombing, to which Hayashi devoted his heart and soul. They reveal another aspect of Hayashi himself.
"Let our photos always be the final records of such an event."
It is our mission to permanently preserve and convey, along with his photos, the thoughts that burned in Hayashi's heart as he gazed around the burnt plain 61 years ago and the desire later expressed via the Anti-Nuclear Photography Movement.

Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
recording paper

Location: Eba-machi
Distance from hypocenter: approx. 3,630m

This recording paper for a Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder was placed on the roof of the Hiroshima District Meteorological Observatory on August 6, 1945. The mushroom cloud rose at 8:15 a.m. A few minutes later, the sun that had shown its face for a short period that morning was shrouded by thick smoke due to fire. At 2:45 p.m., the black rain clouds dispersed, and sunlight returned about 10 minutes later.

Persons and institutions/companies who supported this exhibition

(titles omitted, unordered)
Tateo Hayashi, Michio Ide (deceased), Ken'ichi Komatsu, Satoru Munakata; Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology,

Main reference

"Genbaku o totta otokotachi. 'Hankaku/shashin undou' hen". Kusanone Shuppankai.
"The men who photographed the atomic bomb. 'The anti-nuclear photography movement'"

"Genshibakudan. Hiroshima Nagasaki no shashin to kiroku". Nishina Kinenzaidan hensan. Koufuusha Shoten.
"The atomic bombs. Pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their records"

"Sensou no gurafizumu". Tagawa Seiichi cho. Heibonsha.
"War and grafism"

"Hiroshima genbaku sensaishi". Hiroshima shi.
"Damage caused by the Hiroshima A-bomb"

"Hiroshima no hibaku kenzoubutsu wa kataru". Hiroshima shi.
"Hiroshima's A-bombed buildings are telling"

"CD-ROM Iwanami Heiwa Myuujiamu". Ritsumeikan Daigaku Kokusai Heiwa Myuujiamu Kanshuu. Iwanami Shoten.
"CD-ROM Iwanami Peace Museum"

"Hayashi Shigeo shi kitakushashin no chousa". Ide Michio. Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Shiryoukan kenkyuu jouhoukoku dai 2 gou.
"Survey on the photographs entrusted by Shigeo Hayashi"

The passage in the main text indicated with an asterisk (*) is a quote from "Bakushinchi Hiroshima ni hairu" ("Entering A-bomb hypocenter Hiroshima". Hayashi Shigeo cho. Iwanami Junia Shinsho).

Shigeo Hayashi Photo Exhibition

Introduction
Hiroshima on October 5,1945
The Life of Shigeo Hayashi
A record of Hiroshima’s devastation
	Looking out over the ruins
	Standing in the burnt plain
	Walking streets of rubble 1
	Walking streets of rubble 2
	Historical sites destroyed
Record of the Academic Survey Team
	A-bomb Damage Survey Activities
	Damage to Plants and Regrowth
	Listening to Shigeo Hayashi
	Conclusion
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