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This amazing woodcut print depicting the radioactive rubble of Hiroshima was created by Asai Kiyoshi, who was 44 years old when the bomb was dropped on his city.

The Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, completed in 1915, is the focus of this artwork. Looking closely, you can see that the destroyed building is surrounded by thousands of dead people. The building was at the very epicenter of the atomic blast, and has been preserved to this very day as a monument against war.

The artist, who is now deceased, titled his print, Evening glow over Hiroshima.