Visualizing Nagasaki
Art, Ekphrasis, and Postmemory
I refer to the images below in my chapter, “Visualizing Nagasaki: Art, Ekphrasis, and Postmemory,” in The “Inheritance” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Rethinking the Bombings in a Post-Survivor World, eds. Maika Nakao, Masaya Nemoto, and Ran Zwigenberg, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. The chapter will be linked here when available. The digital copy of these images are provided here in lieu of inclusion in the chapter’s text. The chapter itself includes three additional images that complement the ones here.
Image 1.
Mother (Tanaka Kiyo) breastfeeding baby (Yoshihiro), Nagasaki, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Yamahata Yōsuke.
Public Domain.
Image 2.
Mother (Yamada Fumiko) and son (Shin’ichi) holding rice balls, Nagasaki, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Yamahata Yōsuke.
Public Domain.
Image 3.
“From the Axis Pact to Sanrizuka” (三国同盟から三里塚まで Sangoku dōmei kara Sanrizuka made), by Maruki Toshi and Iri, 1979.
Above: Full image credit: From the Axis Pact to Sanrizuka (1979), ink, paper, mixed media, size 271х1470 cm, by Japanese artists Maruki Iri (1901-1995) and Maruki Toshi (1912-2000), which has been photographed, is part of the collection of the National Gallery, Bulgaria. The image appears on this site with permission.
Below: Detail of second panel with mother and child.
