A monument commemorating the students and staff of Hiroshima City Girls' High School.The letters referring to the atomic bomb indicate the conditions under Allied occupation.
Date of construction: August 6, 1948 All 544 first and second year students and eight staff members of Hiroshima Municipal Girls' High School who had come to help with the demolition of buildings in the area from present-day Peace Memorial Park to Peace Boulevard (approximately 500m from the hypocenter. At the time, it was Zaimokucho to Kobikicho) died. Including those who were mobilized elsewhere, 679 students died in the bombing, making this school the city's highest casualty of any school. The tanka poem on the back of the monument, "Protected by my friend's fence, Rest in peace, May you rest in this grass mountain" by Miyagawa Masaomi, was written by the school's principal at the time. The box held by the girl in the center is inscribed with the formula for atomic energy (E=MC2), taken from Einstein's theory of relativity. This reflects the circumstances of the time when the characters for "atomic bomb" could not be used under the Allied occupation.
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- Open all year round
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- 〒730-08111 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture (Motoyasu River bank, Heiwa Bridge west end)