Posts Tagged ‘Shigeko Sasamori’
Hibakusha visiting Twisted Gun
Sunday, August 6th, 2017Shigeko Sasamori
Saturday, May 10th, 2014..May 2014.. ..New York..
Atomic bomb survivor and Hiroshima Maiden Shigeko Sasamori poses with a New York City high school student who sketched a portrait of her.
Shigeko survived was 13 years old when the atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima. She was so severely burned that she was unrecognizable. During 1955 she was brought to New York along with 25 other young girls for reconstructive surgery.
Mrs. Reiko Yamada and Mrs. Shigeko Sasamori
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
From Above at Gallery EF
Monday, September 2nd, 2013..August 2013.. ..Tokyo..
Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, Mrs. Reiko Yamada and Mrs. Shigeko Sasamori in front of the portrait of Mrs. Yamada and Mrs. Miller.
A small selection of new portraits of hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are being exhibited for the rest of the summer at Gallery EF in Tokyo. Copies of my book are also on display for everyone to look at.
This is the link to the event at Gallery EF.
http://www.gallery-ef.com/fa_library13.html
Mrs. Shigeko Sasamori
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
Clifton Truman Daniel and Shigeko Sasamori
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013..May 2013.. ..New York..
Clifton Truman Daniel, the eldest grandson of President Harry Truman, with atomic bomb survivor Shigeko Sasamori.
Mrs. Sasamori was 13 years old when the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima. She was so badly burned that she was unrecognizable. During 1955, she was brought to NY for reconstructive plastic surgery with a group of 25 young girls known as the “Hiroshima Maidens.” Mrs. Sasamori now resides in the US and has dedicated her life to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Hibakusha visiting the Twisted Gun sculpture
Monday, August 6th, 2012