a submerged street
Kesen'numa, MIyagi

We were horrified not only because we saw twenty thousad deaths but also we were astonished. We had to find our home was based on such a vulnerable and fragile land. It was shaken and drowned, then burned and totally covered by rubble.  So we had to understand that our whole life was helplessly dependent on the precious heritage from the past. A brick wall looks invincible but it just looks so. It was put there by hands and can be collapsed in a second.