A-bombed camphor trees, Sanno shrine, Nagasaki

74 years ago, the atomic bomb exploded in Nagasaki just 800 meters away from these 500-600 years old camphor trees. They were burned black, with all the branches broken.

Ten years later a few buds appeared again, and they were declared "living memorials", favorable omens for the future of the city and living prayers for peace, as they survived a horror that should never, ever happen again...