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Title	Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Museum, Art by Survivors, 16 -- "Searching for mother among the straw mats"
Description	"Searching for mother among the straw mats" -- Explanation by the artist: "My mother, who lived in HIroshima, was missing so my aunt and I (I was 6 years old), who had been at an evacuation site, went to the riverbank near Misasa. We searched for her under the straw mats covering the many people who had breathed their last on the riverbank. One face was swollen reddish copper, but was still white around the eyes (probably where glasses had reflected the heat ray). Under the mid-summer sun, the stench was unbearable." -- The artist was 6 at the time of the bombing, 63 at the time when she drew this picture.
Country	Japan
Historical Period	Japan - Showa 1926 - 1989
Date of Content	2002
Artist/Creator	Kuwamoto, Katsuko
Photographer/Recorder	Thiedeman, Michael
IDEAS Topic	People
Subject	Atomic bomb--Hiroshima; Atomic bomb--Atomic bomb victims
Associated Places	Japan (country) Chugoku (region) Hiroshima (prefecture) Hiroshima (inhabited place)
Work of Art, Present Location	Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Type	Still image
Format	Image/jpeg
Extent	1200 w x 867 h 150 ppi
Date Photographed/Recorded	2005-11-27
Permissions	Materials may by used for educational, non-commercial purposes only, in accordance with Fair Use policies. Acknowledgement to be given to the IDEAS Project, Earlham College, and to the Peace Memorial Museum of Hiroshima.
IDEAS Collection	Earlham College Asian Cultures Collection
Institution Name	Earlham College
IDEAS Identifier	ecasia000764
Collection Editor	Thiedeman, Michael
Notes	Editorial assistant: Marcus Davis. Collection Librarian: Amy Bryant. Please send comments or content corrections to Michael Thiedeman, Department of Art, Earlham College, Richmond IN. 47374, USA. email address: thiedemi@earlham.edu

Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Museum, Art by Survivors, 16 -- "Searching for mother among the straw mats"

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