Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto

Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto

(1909- September,28,1986)

Acceptance of Life

Restoring The Temple

Life as a reverend

Reaction (Volition)

Doctor Duties

Reverend Tanimoto

Effects after the explosion

Morning

A man with a giving heart

Hero, Not Hero?

He began thinking about raising money to restore his church in the city. A lot of people may have been barely making money after the destruction of their city. He shouldve kept in mind that people were recovering from their conditions and wouldnt be able to help him raise money.

He envied the church's wealth, they seemed to do anything they wanted. He had nothing to work with except his own energy, and that was not what it had been. After the bomb dropped, Mr. Tanimoto was spending all of his time and energy helping the wounded. He was always thoughtful and kind, worked endlessley to help bring many of the nameless dying and wounded to safety. He was so worn out after all he had did for people. The only thing he was then worried about was resting and maintaining his energy.

Lying on his back with a fever of 104, Mr.Tanimoto worried about the funerals he ought to be conducting for the deceased people of his church. He thought he was just overtired from the hard work he had done since the bombing, but it was the fever. By him worrying for the funeral and being with a fever was not good on his body because it could've lead to stress.

Mr. Tanimoto reacted in terror. He was only able to take 4 or 5 steps and then threw himself between two big rocks. He heard no roar just felt a sudden pressure.

Houses nearby were burning, he thought that their were huge drops of water when it was actually drops of condense moisture. Smoke is pushing up through the clouds of dust, and as the houses burn, large water droplets fall. Although the bomb caused fires citywide, other fires break out from inflammable wreckage that falls on peoples' stoves as well as on live wires. A lot of random destruction has occurred, and the survivors are having difficulty piecing together what has happened.

6 O'clock Mr. Tanimoto went off to Mr. Matuo's house. The two men started to what seemed a perfect morning. The day seemed so warm that it promise to be uncomfortable. Minutes later the air-raid went off. This warned right before planes started approaching which only seemed a slight amount of danger.

One of the six survivors who experienced the horror of the atomic bomb, B-29. Mr. Tanimoto was a small man who was quick to talk, laugh and cry. He was a church minister, he enjoyed taking care of others. Mr. Tanimoto studied at Emory College, in Atlanta, Georgia; graduated in 1940. He was married and had two children. The peace prize was named after him. Kiyoshi Tanimoto Peace Prize.

He wanted to save all of the citizens but unfortunately it was too much for one to bare. He felt guilty because he ran for miles passing by the wounded people who was calling out for him. Even though he wanted to help them at the same time, he was worrying about his wife and his infant daughter.

He was now angry at himself because he promised a lot of dying people that he would bring them medical aid. Even though it wasn't possible for him to give all the people medical aid he was going to try his best to help them. He didnt want the people to die feel cheated so instead of giving them medical aid, he gave them rice cakes and biscuits.

Mr.Tanimoto was angry at the doctors because they were at a different station where people were slightly wounded. He wanted the people that who were severely wounded to be taken care of first. There was no point in caring for severely wounded people first because there was no hope; they were going to eventually die. So the doctors thought it was better to care for the slightly wounded first because they can recover from their condition.

A day to remember

Guilt to Loyalty

Alive but Ashamed!

Dedicated Minister

"They're just human beings"

City Rush

Day before

After the explosion

Relaxed to soon!

The pressure he felt to prove his loyalty to Japan revealed an important cultural dynamic at the time. As a Japanese man with ties to America, Mr.Tanimoto felt a constant guilt and had to drive to prove his loyalty. After all, he finally became friendly with Father Kleinsorge and saw the Jesuits often.

Mr. Tanimoto was the only person making his way into the city; he met hundreds who were fleeing, and everyone of them seemed to be hurt some way. While everyone was rushing out of the city, he ran swiftly through the demolished remains of what was called "Hiroshima".

On August 9, hours after the second atomic bomb had dropped, Mr.Tanimoto was still working in the park helping others. He went to Ushida, and got a tent he had stored there before the bombing. He took it to the park and set it up as a shelter for some of the wounded who could not move or be moved.

Reverend Tanimoto ferried wounded people across the river. It took him three trips to get all the people across the river. He had to carry the slimy people that were naked and their skin was torn into glovelike pieces. Also their bodies were whiffy and with heavy burns that they their skin was red and swollen. Mr.Tanimoto had to keep in mind that they were only humans so he had to get over their condition and carry them across the river.

When he returned from Shikoku, he conducted services in a damp living of a house he had rented in Ushida. Despite of the conditions of the house they still had to do what was needed in order to get things done. Even though there were a lot of deceased people, he had to his job as a minister.

Mr. Tanimoto, ashamed of hurting wounded people, embarrassed at being able t walk upright. Thousands of people had nobody to help them. As he's running through the city, it just hurts him to see everybody lacerated and he's without any limp. A lot of things roamed through his mind like guiltiness, regrets, and other embarassing things. At first he was happy that he survived but then he realized how many people was injured after the bomb.

Mr. Tanimoto had been carrying all the portable things from his church in the district called Nagaragawa to a house two miles away which belonged to rayon master manufacter in kio. Having a sleepless night, weeks of worry and a unbalanced diet he was awfully tired.

People didn't panic because they thought it was a reconnaissance mission. The morning would always be perfectly clear and so warm that they thought nothing was going to happen. There was always an air-raid siren that goes off to indicate the people of Hiroshima that they were only in a slight degree danger.

Mr. Tanimoto, the minister, runs "wildly" away from the estate and performs various acts of mercy. At first he thinks several bombs were dropped. He runs up a hillock on a private estate where he can get a panoramic view. What greets Tanimoto's eyes is unimaginable, and it causes him to run toward the city, concerned for his wife, baby, home, church, and parishioners.