| ID Code | 3102-0110 |
|---|---|
| Artifact Name | Trousers |
| Donor | Yoshihiro GENDO |
| Receiving Date | 2010/08/02 |
| Size (W×H×D) (mm) | 510×830 |
| Distance from the Hypocenter(m) | 600 |
| Number | 1 |
| Location | Peace Memorial Park vicinity |
| Description | Older brother's shirt, trousers and underwear Donated by Yoshihiro Gendo 600m from the hypocenter Nakajima-shin-machi (now, Nakajima-cho) Yoshiaki Gendo (then, 12) was a first year student at Second Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School, and experienced the atomic bombing at his building demolition worksite during roll call before starting work. A man who had come from Ono, in the suburbs of Hiroshima City, to look for his son put Yoshiaki on the back of his bicycle and took him home. However, despite the desperate care of his mother Masumi (then, 32), he bore through the pain and took his last breath at around 11am on the morning of the 7th. Yoshiaki was wearing these clothes when the bomb was dropped. Comment from younger brother Yoshihiro: My older brother had serious burns all over his body with his skin hanging down, and when he took his clothes off, my mother had to cut away the clothes that were stuck to his skin. While he was suffering, my brother apparently spoke about how he and his classmates fled the fires by jumping into the river and desperately clinging to a log, and how he turned down an offer to take him to Ninoshima Island because he was so determined to get home. When our mother gave him the juice from some canned peaches, he said “that was delicious,” and those were his last words. When my mother was alive, she kept my brother's clothes in the Buddhist altar, saying that she wanted them nearby as long as she was alive. |