Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Yamahata Yosuke Sketch, 1945

Yamahata Yosuke, a Japanese Army photographer, is captured sketching the burned bodies of Nagasaki victims on August 10, 1945 (top). The image above is the resulting sketch.
From: Jenkins, Rupert (Ed.). Nagasaki Journey: The Photography of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10, 1945. Rohnert Park, Ca.: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995.
Also available at: "Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata," The Exploratorium. 13 January 2006. Accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/journey/journey1.html.

 

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