Anyway I must go to the outside, so I went out from the diagnosis room to the hallway in the Nagasaki Medical College Hospital. However, I could hardly step on the floor, because so many broken pieces fell from upstairs. I stepped over the desks and succeeded in going out of the window in the next room.
In the open air, I saw a black colored column, later called "mushroom cloud," which extended upwards from Urakami which is the hypocenter. Through that cloud, I saw the midday sun of August genuinely red.
This reminded me of "Salome" of the drama written by Oscar Wilde although I cannot understand why I imagined it at that moment. In this drama King Herod says, "Today's moon looks red like blood." Perhaps in my mind, this color of the sun was associated with the blood color of the moon in the drama "Salome"----