Kanzaki School District Atomic Bomb Memorial Monument

[Date of erection] August 3, 1995 [Erected by] Kanzaki School District Atomic Bomb Memorial Construction Committee [History] Many of the victims were from the Kanzaki School District, which was located relatively close to the hypocenter, including 147 teachers, staff and students from Kanzaki National School (now Kanzaki Elementary School, 1.2 km from the hypocenter). It is said that bodies were cremated every day in the schoolyard (near the current National Route 2). Shortly after, the head of the temple's congregation at Eikoji Temple (Funairi Honmachi) erected a three-meter-tall wooden monument near the incineration site. Later, the wooden monument was moved to the temple in conjunction with the construction of National Route 2, but due to its advanced corrosion, it was incinerated in the 1960s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the deaths, the head priest of the temple called on the local residents to rebuild the memorial, and in response, a monument construction committee was organized by the heads of 21 organizations, including the neighborhood association, and the monument was erected after a fundraising campaign. Part of the monument's base is made from four atomic bomb stones that were left behind at Kanzaki Elementary School.