| ID Code | 2301-0024 |
|---|---|
| Artifact Name | Lunch box |
| Donor | UEKI Kensuke |
| Receiving Date | 2015/1/10 |
| Size (W×H×D) (mm) | 330×270×40 |
| Distance from the Hypocenter(m) | 約900ｍ |
| Number | 1 |
| Location | Tokaichi, Nakahiro areas |
| Description | Lunch box Donated by Kensuke Ueki (Sumio's nephew) 900 m from the hypocenter Koami-cho Sumio Nagano (then, 12), a first-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School, was exposed to the atomic bomb at his building demolition worksite. On August 7, his father Ryuso found a lunch box with the name Sumio Nagano written on it among some lunch boxes left on the Temmagawa River bank. The inside of the lunch box had turned into something like rice porridge. Assuming that his son was not there, Ryuso went to an elementary school designated as an evacuation site, but couldn't find him there either. On August 8, Ryuso went to the school again with his brother and was told by Sumio's classmate that a boy lying at the rear of the room was Sumio. He had died on the evening of August 7. Ryuso identified the boy as Sumio by his trousers and the length of his hair, and cremated him on the school grounds. He deeply regretted that he couldn't see his son before he died. On August 6 every year since then, Sumio's family had placed white rice and umeboshi (pickled plum) in this lunch box and dedicated it to the family's Buddhist altar. This practice had been preserved in his family until this lunch box was donated to the museum. |