Kiyoshi Kikkawa displaying scarring outside his kiosk

An black and white portrait lanscape photograph of man exhibiting scars in front of his shop. The man is standing in the foreground with this back to the camera and his armed outstreched to exhibit scarring (keloids) on his back. He is wearing trouses and a belt but is bare above the waist. To his right is a sign reading 'THE ATOM BOMB CASUALITY / SHOP / BOMB VICTIM NO. 1 K. KIKKAWA / I am introduced in the LIFE, TIME and other magazines as the Atomb Bomb Victim No,. 1. Over half of my body was burned by the Atom Bomb on Aug. 6 1945. I was taken into the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, stayed there for 6 [obscured: years] and during the period I had 16 [obscured] I want to support myself. Thank you for your kind attention / BOMB SOUVENIR MATERIALS'. A kiosk can be seen in the background will various objects set out. It has a striped canopy above and lettering painted on the boards of two of its sides. These read: ' [P]OST CARDS', 'ALBUMS', 'SOUVENIORS' 'SHOP OF-' and '[SH]OP OF MR K. KIKKAW- / KNOWN AS [obscured] ATOMIC BOMB PATIENT'. Some Japanese characters appear on one side of the kiosk on the right side of the image. This photgraph is a on a page (showing ALB1760.111-120) captioned 'HIROSHIMA. 1953.' in its centre.


The man referred to on the sign and almost certainly the man shown in the image is Kiyoshi Kikkawa, a Hiroshima resident kit by the blast from the bomb. He became famous after he was labelled as 'A-bomb Victim No. 1' by the US press. After this, he worked on A-bomb survivors' organizations and peace campaigns. He died in 1986, aged 74.