MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Sanno_torii_boxed_in_red.jpg (500x402) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Sanno torii boxed in red.jpg en In the foreground in in the Ichino torii In the red box is Sannō Shrine's second torii with only one supporing column still standing ; and just behind the torii is the main platform of the shine precincts Context note One of the two pillars of the Sannō Shrine torii was toppled by the A-bomb blast The blast also blew away the branches and leaves of the two camphor trees in the precincts of the Shrine which were then more than 500 years old At that time it was feared that the trees might wither and die; however they gradually began to recover and now are thickly covered with leaves and branches http //tgaw wordpress com/2009/06/28/survivor-trees-nagasakis-sanno-shrine/ digitized image with red box; Originally photographed by the U S Strategic Bombing Survey 1945; Committee for Research of Photographs and Materials of the Atomic Bombing Nagasaki Foundation for Promotion of Peace -- http //www1 city nagasaki nagasaki jp/peace/english/kids/kaisetsu/detail/sanno html Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Lieutenant R J Battersby 1945-10 PD-USGov Atomic bombing of Nagasaki Sannō-jinja Nagasaki Nagasaki in ruins A-Bombed Trees of Nagasaki | ||||
