| ID Code | 3101-0051 |
|---|---|
| Artifact Name | School Uniform |
| Donor | Tetsuichi Minemoto |
| Receiving Date | |
| Size (W×H×D) (mm) | 530×590 |
| Distance from the Hypocenter(m) | 600 |
| Number | 1 |
| Location | Yoshijima, Funairi, Kan-on areas |
| Description | Hitoshi Minemoto (then 12) was a first year student at Second Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School. He was exposed to the A-bomb while demolishing buildings in Nakajima-shin-machi. Hitoshi sustained serious burns above the waist and collapsed on his way home. A neighbor found him there. When his father, Tetsuichi, learned the news, he went for him with Hitoshi's older sister Nobuko and three others. They searched through the smoldering hot city and finally found him toward evening near Yokogawa Bridge. Hiroshi's burned face was so swollen even his family failed to recognize him at first. All the relief stations were full, and they were unable to get a doctor to look at him, so Tetsuichi took Hitoshi home. His mother Kikumi cut away the peeling hanging skin with scissors and painted his burns with oil. He told his family about his A-bomb experience all night long, intermittently crying out, "It hurts! How it hurts!" At about 5:00 a.m. on the 7th, Hitoshi told Kikumi, "I'm going to sleep," and breathed his last. |