Hiroshima atomic-bomb damage & post-war reconstruction plan—Japanese map 1946

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廣島復興都市計畫 街路網公園配置圖 縮尺二萬分ノ一 [Hiroshima City Reconstruction Plan: Street Network and Park Layout, scale 1:20,000]; red English panel: Data on Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima City


Issued in December 1946, sixteen months after the bomb, this is Hiroshima's reconstruction street and park plan, overprinted with a bilingual Japanese–English panel of atomic-bombing data: deaths, missing and injured, homes razed, streetcars and schools lost, and the estimated cost of rebuilding. A red dotted line encloses the area devastated by fire around the marked hypocentre, and eight captioned photographs show the ruins, among them the Industrial Promotion Hall, now the Atomic Bomb Dome, and Aioi Bridge. Beneath lies the new city: the widened avenues, parks and land-readjustment zones decided in autumn 1946, including the Nakajima district that became the Peace Memorial Park. Published by the Hiroshima City Mutual Aid Association at 1:20,000; a contemporary owner has marked National Route 2 alignments in red.

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Size 53 x 67 cm | 21.0 x 26.0 inches

Date Published: December 1946 (Shōwa 21, 12th month)

Type: Vintage folding urban reconstruction plan printed in black and red (probably lithographed), with manuscript route annotations

Author: Hiroshima City Mutual Aid Association

Publisher: 廣島市共濟組合 Hiroshima-shi Kyōsai Kumiai (Hiroshima City Mutual Aid Association). Planning content from the 1946 Hiroshima reconstruction city plan (streets, land readjustment and parks announced by the War Damage Rehabilitation Board, Oct–Nov 1946); compiler/draughtsman not named on sheet.

Publication: Hiroshima Reconstruction Urban Plan

廣島市共濟組合發行 (Published by the Hiroshima City Mutual Aid Association), 昭和二十一年十二月 (December 1946). Single sheet.

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. Printed correction slips pasted over the casualty figures in both the Japanese and English data panels (78,150 dead / 13,983 missing / 37,429 injured). Contemporary manuscript annotation in ink at lower centre, 二号國道 在来線 / 仝上 新線 (National Route 2: existing line / new line), keyed to red-pencil lines drawn across the plan. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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