Yoshito Matsushige was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.
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![shadows by thermal rays of atomic bombing at Yorozu Bridge [ja] (photographed by Yoshito Matsushige in ca. October, 1945)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Shadow_of_Handrails_by_thermal_rays_of_atomic_bombing_on_Hiroshima_-_around_October_1945.png/500px-Shadow_of_Handrails_by_thermal_rays_of_atomic_bombing_on_Hiroshima_-_around_October_1945.png)
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About this person
Country
JapanCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1913 to 2005 · aged 92
Written about in
8 languages
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