| ID Code | 3199-0023 |
|---|---|
| Artifact Name | Younger brother's swimsuit |
| Donor | YOKOYAMA Shigeru |
| Receiving Date | 2012/11/30 |
| Size (W×H×D) (mm) | 910×710 |
| Distance from the Hypocenter(m) | |
| Number | 1 |
| Location | Kamiya-cho, Hondori areas |
| Description | Younger brother's swimsuit Yasushi Yokoyama (then, 16) was a first-year student at Hiroshima Higher School, who experienced the bombing near his home. From July 25, Yasushi had been directed to work at Japan Steel Works in Kaita Town, Aki County. Given a break on August 5, he returned home. On the morning of August 6, he was on his way to the factory when the flash blinded him and he received serious burns. Although he managed to flee to somewhere near Hijiyama with the help of nurses from residential clinics, he was briefly left alone and in that time might have been picked up by an aid truck, but it is not sure what happened to him. His family frantically searched for him without success, and even after the war, his mother, Yuki (then, 52), continued to hold on to the hope that Yasushi had returned every time the front door opened. Shigeru Yokoyama recalls: We don't know where he died. Of course, his bones weren't returned while she was alive. Together, the A-bomb took away her husband, daughter, and two sons. For 32 years, my mother's heart was full of regret and she would exclaim that Yasushi was back whenever she heard a voice on the street. She died in 1977 at the age of 85. |