| ID Code | 4201-0088 |
|---|---|
| Artifact Name | Military Sword |
| Donor | Yasuyuki Nishikawa |
| Receiving Date | 2005/07/09 |
| Size (W×H×D) (mm) | 700×30×20 |
| Distance from the Hypocenter(m) | 1300 |
| Number | 1 |
| Location | Moto-machi, Hakushima areas |
| Description | Military sword Yasuyuki Nishikawa’s father, Jirobee, was exposed at Hiroshima Second Army Hospital in Moto-machi, where he served as military physician. His family at home in Itsukaichi-cho were unharmed. When Jirobee still had not returned home on the 8th, his wife Hiroko (then, 32) and son Yasuyuki entered the city to look for him. The hospital had burned down to the foundation. Hiroko and Yasuyuki dug into the rubble of the area of the room where they thought Jirobee had been, but found no remains. They found only the military sword that Jirobee had been wearing and a burnt fragment of his German language medical dictionary. |