HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH

HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH
Read About Van Gogh's Secret Visit to Japan

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN
IT WAS A SPECIAL TIME IN MY LIFETIME

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...
Watercolor by R.L.Huffstutter

COMPARISONS IN ART

COMPARISONS IN ART
HIROSHIGE'S WORK ON LEFT, VAN GOGH'S ON RIGHT

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW
Shot with my Petri in Yokohama 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962
I took this with my PETRI in Kanagawa Prefecture

Friday, May 28, 2010

Nagasaki Peace Memorial

THIS IS ONE OF MANY PHOTOGRAPHS I MUST CONTEMPLATE WHEN I STUDY THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR TWO. MY GRATITUDE TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER
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Nagasaki Peace Memorial
This is a shot I took of one of thousands of memorials at ground zero in Nagasaki, right outside of the front entrance to the Atomic Bomb museum and memorial. There are so many reasons today to remember the over 75,000 people who died instantly when the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, 60 years ago.

Here is a site dedicated to remembering the atomic bombing of Nagasaki: Remembering Nagasaki.

This site was set up on the 50th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It includes photographs by the Japanese Army Photograper, Yosuke Yamahata. On August 10th, 1945 he took his camera and documented the devastation left in the wake of the second atomic bomb dropped on a civilian population. The pictures are stark, terrifying and heatbreaking. Many of these are on display at the atomic bomb museum at ground zero in Nagasaki. These should be required viewing for everyone. Please take a look.

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