火論：よみがえる「廣島」＝玉木研二

玉木さんのご母堂も被爆者だったのですね。
この記事には心をうたれました。

短い生命（いのち）を惜しむように、あんな日(1945/08/06)にも蝉は鳴き続けていたといいます。繰り返してはなりませんね。

スラチャイ

(Mainichi Japan) March 24, 2012
Remembering and remaking that which was destroyed
火論：よみがえる「廣島」＝玉木研二
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In this column, I have on previous occasions introduced the tireless efforts by filmmaker Masaaki Tanabe, 74, and others to record what happened to Hiroshima many decades ago. Now, their production panel is making serious progress on a computer graphics film reproducing scenes of pre-bombing Hiroshima within a kilometer of what was to become, on Aug. 6, 1945, ground zero of an atomic blast. Part of the film was unveiled to the public last week.
　原爆投下で消えた広島の街と生活をコンピューターグラフィックス（ＣＧ）でよみがえらせる。映像作家、田辺雅章さん（７４）らの絶やさぬ営みをかつて小欄でも紹介した。今、その製作委員会は爆心地から半径１キロに広げた再現映画づくりを進めており、先週その一部が公開された。

The crew of the "Enola Gay" B-29 bomber that carried the "Little Boy" atom bomb used central Hiroshima's Aioi Bridge as their bombing target. The film segment released last week shows groups of houses and buildings as well as lush stands of trees near the T-shaped bridge that could be seen before being reduced to ash by the nuclear blast.
　Ｂ２９「エノラ・ゲイ」号が投下目標とした相生橋。これを中心に展開する公開画像は、消滅前の建物群や街の豊かな樹木を見ることができる。

Hiroshima was built on a river delta on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and the Aioi Bridge area would have smelled pleasantly of water and leaves. During the scorching summer people must have relished the shady embrace of the trees and the river breezes in the evening. Nearby, the ornate facade of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall kept silent watch. After the blast, the building would go by another name: the Atomic Bomb Dome.
　広島は瀬戸内の河口、幾筋にも分かれた三角州の上にある。水と潮と木の葉が香るようだったろう。風がなぐ夏の夕は、暑熱をその緑陰でまぎらわしたか。そうした風光に包まれるようにあるしゃれた建物が、広島県産業奨励館。これが原爆ドームとなる。

When Japan was about to enter the era of economic growth that was the post-war reconstruction period, people in Hiroshima were divided over whether to demolish the dome. There were people who insisted on preserving it in order not to forget the importance of peace and pass it on to future generations. Others wanted the building torn down because they did not want to be reminded of the horrors of the atomic bomb.
　戦後も復興から成長時代に入るころ、ドームの存廃論議が起きた。忘れないために、平和の尊さを語り継ぐために、と存続・保存を訴える声の一方で、「惨状を思い起こさせないでほしい」と撤去を望む声もあった。

My late mother belonged to the latter group. In order to get to the heart of the city by tram, people had to cross the Aioi Bridge. It is still so even today. The Atomic Bomb Dome is just east of the span, and my mother told me she always averted her eyes from the skeletal structure when she was crossing the bridge.
　亡母は後者だった。今も昔も路面電車で市の中心部に行くには相生橋を渡らなければならない。その東詰めにドームはある。そういう時は目をそらすのだと言った。

She was only 1.5 kilometers from the hypocenter when the bomb went off, and was exposed to radiation from the blast. She remained reluctant to talk about the experience her entire life. Then again, hers is only one example of attitudes held by A-bomb survivors.
　ここから約１・５キロで被爆、けがもしたが、体験は終生言いたがらなかった。そうした態度は、もちろん人それぞれの中の一例にすぎない。

Nevertheless, my mother used to talk nostalgically about the splendor and beauty of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall before it became the anti-nuclear icon it is today. Perhaps it symbolized the cheerfulness of the city in the pre-war era. It was designed by famous Czech architect Jan Letzel, and the copper dome was the highlight of the Hiroshima skyline. I believe my mother spoke of the hall out of a strong fascination with the structure.
　その母が、往時の産業奨励館の見事さは心から懐かしげに語ったものだ。戦前の広島の華やぎを象徴したのだろう。著名なチェコの建築家ヤン・レツルの設計である。銅を張ったドームは空に映えた。母はやや陶然とした気配で回顧したと思う。

The dome was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, and there was no more debate on the fate of the building. My mother had already passed away by that time, so I can't ask her how she feels about it.
　ドームは「世界遺産」になり、存廃論議は消えた。母は決定時既に世になかったから、感懐は聞きようもない。

However, I now rather wish I could show her vibrant pre-war Hiroshima and the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall reproduced in CG -- the hall that she was always so keen to describe.
　ただ、ＣＧに再現された生気ある戦前の「廣島」の街と産業奨励館とは、見せてやりたかったと今思う。

Filmmaker Tanabe and others built the recreation from rare photographs, archives and first-person descriptions, and the film is expected to be completed in three years. Though they have already collected so much, the crew continue to search out more materials and witnesses to the pre-war city.
　田辺さんらの再現作業は残された貴重な写真、記録、多数の証言収集などをこつこつと積み重ねて行われている。今製作中の映画は３年後に完成を目指す。もっと資料や証言を、と広く呼びかける。

I wonder if their efforts to reproduce the Hiroshima scenes that vanished in a mere instant of fire could provide some hints to reproducing the region devastated by last year's Great East Japan Earthquake.
　こうした、瞬時に消えた街をよみがえらせる「復元」の営みが、東日本大震災の被災地再生に何らかの、ヒントの一つにならないか。

In Hiroshima, there were movements to bring local residents and A-bomb victims together by reproducing maps of pre-war residential areas in the 1960s and preserving "pictures of the atomic bombing" in the 1970s.
　広島では、６０年代に消えた街の住居地図復元、７０年代に「原爆の絵」を残す運動などと、被爆者・市民を結びつける動きが起き、高まった。

Above all, I believe that it is time for young people to apply fresh ideas to reproduce pre-disaster Tohoku.
　今、とりわけ若い人たちのみずみずしい発想が出番だと思う。

（専門編集委員）
(By Kenji Tamaki, Expert Senior Writer)

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