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ID Code 3504-0034
Artifact Name Wallet
Donor Mizumoto Toshio
Receiving Date 2001/11/26
Size (W×H×D) (mm) 110×80×10
Distance from the Hypocenter(m) 900
Number 1
Location Yoshijima, Funairi, Kan-on areas
Description Kenichi Mizumoto was exposed at Kako-machi,where the factory where he was mobilized had sent him for building demolition work.A rescue team sent by his company found Kenichi in the nearby river and carried him to a temporary relief station in Gion-cho.Hearing the news,Kenichi'sfather,Shigeo,went to the relief station to bring him home,but found his son in no condition to move.Wanting his wife,Chiharu,to see her son one more time before he died, he hurried home to fatch her to the relief station. Before dawan on the 7th and before the reunion could take place,Kenichi died.Kenichi had made this wallet himself using his elementary school backpack.

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