Hiroshima atomic-bomb damage & post-war reconstruction plan—Japanese map 1946
£1,580
SKU: P-6-112367
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.
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
Publication: Hiroshima Reconstruction Urban Plan
Condition: Good |
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