One of the most impressive places I have ever visited, #Hiroshima in #Japan, where humanity once thought it necessary to drop the first atomic bomb. Images of The #AtomicDome and the #PeaceMemorialMuseum are etched in my mind.
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A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945.
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Ever since I visited the Peace Park and the #AtomicBomb Dome in #Hiroshima, #Japan, I have had these and more images in my mind of what happened after the explosion destroyed the city, its buildings and the people in a large area around it for a long time. The impression of melted nails and people with only a burnt shadow left on the stairs. Will we ever reach true humanity and live in peace or is that just a contradiction?
Everyone inside the Promotion Hall, which was almost at the epicenter of the blast, was killed instantly.
Following the city's destruction the hall was scheduled for demolition, but in 1966 it was decided that the renamed 'Atomic Bomb Dome' (原爆ドーム) would become a memorial.
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all alone
in silence at the dome,
Hiroshima Day
黙然とひとりドームにヒロシマ忌
-Shigemoto Yasuhiko (重本泰彦).
Perhaps the most iconic anti-nuclear symbol of our times, the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was built in 1915 and was immortalized on August 6th 1945.
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The Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Flame -which will burn until nuclear disarmament- as seen through the Memorial Cenotaph (慰霊碑).
The epitaph reads:
安らかに眠って下さい 過ちは 繰返しませぬから
'Rest in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated'
-Saika Tadayoshi (雑賀忠義).
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A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945.
#Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay
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Camellia Tea Ceremony