Life after the earthquake. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
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'Here we have a few koya [temporary huts] of a better sort. A few pots and pans have been saved, and there is at least a slight protection against the weather. We have only depicted what we have seen, but the same conditions exist in every village and hamlet throughout the devastated district, a...
Imperial University Hospital [at Kuroda]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
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'At Kuroda for the first time we saw hospital work—hospital if it can be called, it being merely a space of ground with curtains stretched around it on bamboo posts, so that the whole world might not look on, and one or two mats within the inclosure. There was nothing whatever in the way of furn...
Imperial University Hospital [at Kuroda, after the earthquake]. Photographer: Nakamura
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'Although the Earthquake took place early in the morning of the 28th [November], it was not until the 30th that the real nature of the disaster was realized, and then doctors were dispatched from all sides...In the University Hospital—constructed out of, and upon, the ruins of fallen houses—Dr. ...
Kasamatsu [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
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'The foot bridge across the Kisogawa at Kasamatsu has simply disappeared, leaving nothing to show where it was. One crosses by boat, to the place where Kasamatsu was, but all that is left of the place is a reddish coloured plain of tiles and other uninflammable things, which, when we were there,...
Kasamatsu [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
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'In the illustration are several koya or temporary shelters, where people are sitting in the midst of a few tubs and pans saved from the wreck. The large wooden tubs in the centre evidently mark the site of a miso or shoyu (bean sauce) factory. Two kura or warehouses, which have heavy roofs and ...
Bridge in Neo Valley [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
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1Here we have a scene in the famous Neo Valley, where the disturbance was practically at its maximum. In some places the ground has sunk, and at others risen, and the people say that the mountains themselves have been depressed, so that from certain points hills formerly invisible now raise up t...