A university professor whose wife has been consumed by the fire stands stunned by the streetcar tracks, clutching a ball of rice in his hand
I am very curious on why the ball of rice is in this painting. Is it of significance or is it just there?
4 Matching Annotations
- Jan 2026
-
visualizingcultures.mit.edu visualizingcultures.mit.edu
-
-
visualizingcultures.mit.edu visualizingcultures.mit.edu
-
Group cremation of student victims of the bomb on August 9. The invocation to the Buddha of the Western Paradise recited by the mourners appears in the lower left-hand corner.
This photo is heart breaking. The fact that they even had to do this in large groups shows how many death their were. They couldn't do individual ceremonies because of how long thisi would have taken.
-
-
visualizingcultures.mit.edu visualizingcultures.mit.edu
-
August 7, around 3 p.m.—a foreign youth beaten to death near the approach to Aioi Bridge.” The victim was an American POW who survived the bomb only to be killed by enraged Japanese survivors.
All of these pictures we see show us just how tragic and devastating this event was. I am still curious on how and why the Japanese culture feels guilt over what happened.
-
-
visualizingcultures.mit.edu visualizingcultures.mit.edu
-
“A woman driven by unbearable thirst tried to catch the black raindrops in her mouth.”
This photo is very sad to think about. If this was a real scenario this woman has no clue the long term impacts of whats shes doing.
-