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The Hiroshima Panels
36°19′44″N139°21′08″E / 36.3288°N 139.3521°E / 36.3288; 139.3521
Paintings about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu) are a series of fifteen painted folding panels by the collaborative husband and wife artists Toshi Maruki and Iri Maruki completed over a span of thirty-two years (1950–1982).[1] The Panels depict the consequences of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as other nuclear disasters of the 20th century.
Each panel stands 1.8 metres x 7.2 metres.[2]
The paintings depict people wrenched by the violence and chaos of the atomic bombing; some wandering aimlessly, their bodies charred, while others are still being consumed by atomic fire.
Dying lovers embrace and mothers cradling their dead children. Each painting portrays the inhumanity, brutality, and hopelessness of war, and the cruelty of bombing civilians.[2] The