現存する被爆樹木の中で、爆心地から最も近い場所で被爆し、今も同じ場所で生き続けているシダレヤナギです。原爆の投下目標にされたT字型の相生橋にほど近く、幹や枝は一瞬で跡形もなく吹き飛んでしまいました。それでも株は生き残り、根元から生えてきたヒコバエが成長して、現在の姿になりました。風が吹き抜ける川土手に立つこのヤナギは、せっかく伸びた枝が台風で折れたこともあります。その影響などで幹全体が大きく傾いており、倒れないように添え木で支えられながら生きています。
Among the hibaku trees which survive today, this tree stood closest to the hypocenter and lives on today in its original spot. Close to the target of the bombing (the T-shaped Aioi-bashi Bridge), its trunk and branches were blown from its roots in an instant, leaving nothing remaining. However, the roots managed to survive, and from them, new buds began to grow, becoming the tree you see today. Located on a riverbank where the winds blow, this weeping willow lost some of its tenaciously regrown branches to a typhoon, and because of this (and other factors), the trunk leans heavily to one side. The tree survives today, held up by wooden supports so it doesn’t fall over.