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平和公園（爆心地）町並み復元図　　Restored map of Ground Zero and the surrounding towns

ヒロシマの記録―遺影は語る　　（死没者名簿 　広島市女1年　）
　　
　2000/6/23　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　job (school ) ▼ the situations　of the exposure to A-bomb, seen or confirmed by family member ▼ the family members or co-occupants living together on Aug.6th,1945 ( excluded are those who were gone to war or who were living in a rual area, as evacuatees), and the situations of their exposure to A-bomb= all are based on the parol evidence, submitted reports by the immediate family members, or officially published documents.

《記事の読み方》死没者の氏名（年齢）
職業▼遺族がみる、または確認した被爆状況▼原爆が投下された1945年８月６日の居住家族（応召や疎開中は除く）や同居者と、その被爆状況＝いずれも肉親遺族の証言と提供の記録、公刊資料に基づく。年数は西暦（1900年代の下２けた）。（敬称略）

AMAZAKI Yasuko (13)

ARAKI Setsuko (13)

Nakahiro-Cho, Hiroshima City (Nishi W.) ▼ Aug.6^th ▼ Satoko, Mother, identified the remains on 7^th evening on the bank of the Motoyasu River, by the name cloth sewn onto her wartime pants.  Mikio, one of the elder brothers, then a 3^rd year student of Hiroshima City First Junior High School (currently Kokutaiji High School), who was exposed to A bomb during service under student labor force order at Kansai Kosakusyo Co. (Kawaguchi-Cho, Funairigawa, Naka W.) , says, “From her early primary school days on, My sister would often say, on some occasions where the whole relatives gathered, “ I will study hard so that I can be a school teacher.” Tadashi, Father, then the manager of Japanese Society Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, was sent to Santa Fe Detention Camp, New Mexico when the Pacific War broke out.  It was not until he came back home at the end of ’45 that he realized the defeat of Japan in the war and my sister’s death by A bomb.”　▼     Sada (22), the other elder brother, who had graduated from Military Academy in July, was exposed to A bomb at West Parade Ground ( Moto-Machi, Naka W.) and died on 7^th at the first-aid station in Tosaka Village, Aki County ( Higashi W.).

ISHIKAWA Takako (12)

Hiroshima Railway’s housing complex in KoiNaka-Cho(Nishi W.), Hiroshima City. ▼ Koi Primary School▼Aug.6^th ▼ Yukichi, Father, then a Hiroshima Railway worker, who hurriedly returned by train to Umeda City Station, the last train station in those days from Okayama, where he had been satying on business, began to search for her from the 7^th dawn, but could not find the remains.  Tohru, her younger brother, then a 4^th grader, who was exposed to A bomb at Koi Primary School and came home in the black rain, says, “ Father, coming back home at dawn, headed for the burnt-out lot of the labor service my sister had been engaged in, as soon as he was told that she had not returned yet, for he had heard from a junior high school boy that she had been carried to Nino-Shima . On Nino-Shima, he only looked for her face among the injured but not among dead bodies, thinking his daughter was surely alive even if all other victims died. He would often say so in later time. Now that I myself is a parent, I know that it is quite natural as a parent how my father felt during the search on the island. “

　石川　孝子(12)

　広島市己斐中町(西区)の鉄道官舎▼己斐小▼８月６日▼出張先の岡山県から海田市駅まで通じていた列車で戻った広島鉄道局勤務の父猶吉が７日明け方から捜すが、遺骨は不明。己斐小で被爆し、黒い雨に打たれて帰宅した小学４年の弟通は「未明に帰って来た父は、姉がまだ帰らないことを知るとすぐさま作業現場跡に向かいました。男子中学生から、姉が軍の船で似島へ運ばれたと聞いたそうです。島でも自分の娘だけは生きていると思い、遺体は確かめず、負傷者ばかりを見て回ったと話していました。私も子を持つようになって親として当然の気持ちだと知りました」。

Koinaka-Cho, Hiroshima City ▼ Koi Primary School ▼ Aug. 6^th ▼ Shigeyo, Mother, who was exposed to A bomb at home while doing the laundry, went out to search for her on the 7^th, but could not find the remains.  Mother, now aged 89, says, “ She was the eldest of my three daughters.  After my husband died in war in ’37, her grandparents had found joy in her growth and all the family was so happy when she was admitted to Hiroshima MunicipalWomen's Junior High School.  However, I remember that, in those school days, girls were made more committed in ordered labor service than in study at school .  When I remember her back I saw for the last time when she was off to service on that hot summer morning , I feel sorry that I took care of her till she merely got 13.  The photo was taken to celebrate her entrance into the school. “

Koi-Cho, Hiroshima City ▼ Koi Primary School ▼ Aug.8th▼Tatsuzo, Father, a former primary school teacher, then a conscript soldier under Chugoku District Military Command located at the airstriked site of Hiroshima Castle, and Izumi, Mother, found her burnt all over the body, on 6^th night at the burnt-out lot of ordered labor service she was engaged in. They took her back home.  Tetsuhiko, her elder brother, then a 3^rd year student of the Attached Junior High School of Hiroshima Higher Normal School, who was exposed to A bomb at Army Clothing Factory while he was in ordered labor service, says, “ My sister tried hard and said with all her might, “ We all sang Kimigayo.” ”Has Tetsu-chan died?” and when Mother moistened her lips with a few drips of fresh tomato juice, she said, “ Good,” and then breathed her last. Father carried her body to Koi Primary School and placed down into one of tens of holes dug in the school ground, and then cremated it.  I felt devastated when I had to cremate Father’s body who died the next month.” ▼Tatsuzo, Father, who had been exposed to A bomb at Chugoku District Military Command, 790mGZ, died on the 1^st, September.

泉廣(いずひろ)　孝子(13)

　広島市己斐町▼己斐小▼８月６日▼召集されて広島城跡の中国軍管区司令部にいた元小学校教師の父達三と、母泉が６日夜、作業現場跡で全身やけどの長女を見つけ、連れ帰る。動員先の陸軍被服支廠(しょう)で被爆し７日に帰宅した広島高師付属中３年の兄哲彦は「妹は振り絞るような声で『皆で君が代を歌ったんよ』『哲ちゃんは死んだん?』と話し、母がトマトの汁を口に浸してやると『おいしい』と言って逝ったそうです。父となきがらを己斐小へ運び、校庭に掘られていた数十もの穴の一つで焼きました。翌月には父を火葬することになり、断腸の思いです」▼爆心７９０メートルの中国軍管区司令部で被爆した父達三(41)は９月１日死去。

UEHARA Setsuko (13)

Uchikoshi-cho, Hiroshima City (Nishi W.) ▼ Mishino Primary School ▼Aug.8^th ▼Haruichiroh, Father, an iron factory owner, who was exposed to A bomb at home, 1.8km GZ, and Misako, Mother, identified her body on the 7^th at the burnt-out lot of the ordered labor service she was engaged in, and cremated it there.  Masao, her younger brother, then a 4^th grader, who had been moved late July to Ikekuwa Village, Takada County (Midori-cho), under school children evacuation order, says, “To see the  column of smoke rise high in the clear and sunny southern sky, my friends and I thought there might have been bombardment around Yoshido-cho.  It was when a local resident came back to the village in the evening, burnt and injured in ragged clothes, that we came to know a new bomb exploded in the sky above my sister’s head.  I came home in early September and asked about my sister.  While Father never replied, my uncle, who came over to help my parents with clearing up rubbles, whispered in my ear, saying that she had died while engaged in the ordered labor service.”

OGAWA Sumiko (13)

Mitaki-cho, Hiroshima City (Nishi W.) ▼ Minajitsu Primary School ▼ Aug.7^th ▼Saburo, Father, who was exposed to A bomb while at work as an employee at Nissan Automobile Mishino Factory, went out for her search on 6^th afternoon with a bomboo lancing, and found her on the bank of the Motoyasu Riber.  She died on 7^th evening at the burnt-out lot of their house.  Instead of Aiko, Mother, now aged 92, Tetsu, her younger brother, then a 6^th grader, who was staying with mother’s relative’s in mother’s birth place under evacuation through family connection, says, “ Father told me that Sumiko raised her hand when Father got down to the shallow river water, then on the ebb, and called her name loud. Back at home, she described the moment of A bomb explosion, saying, “ I felt as if I were whirling round in a sack and dumped down,“ and called the name of all the five family members one by one, then died.  When Father found her down the river bank, he could not identify her at first, as the skin of her arms were peeled off, hanging down around the finger tips and her face was totally deformed.  So, down there, he had her call the names of family members in order to identify her.  Later, each time when he looked back at it, he always felt sorry, in tears, to have done such a thing to her.”

OKIHIRO Reiko (12)

Yamate-cho, Hiroshima City (Nishi W.) ▼ Mishino Primary School ▼ Aug.6^th ▼ Instead of Sadako, Mother, who suffered severe burn injury from A bomb exposure she had while at field work near their house, Takumi, the elder brother, then a 4^th year student of Hiroshima City Junior High School ( currently Motomachi High School), tried to find her, never to find the remains. Morinobu, her younger brother, then a 1^st grader, says, “ As Mother and my elder brother died, I don’t know about her death.  When Mother was still fine, she never failed to go and pray on Aug.6^th at both the memorial of Hiroshima MunicipalWomen's Junior High School and the cenotaph of post office, which has Father’s name inscribed on it, in Tamon-in, Hijiyama.  Father and Sister had the same birth date and died on the same day, so Mother often said that they might have had the same fate. “▼ Kenzo (37), Father, an employee at Hiroshima Post Office, was at work in the branch office building in Saiku-cho (1 cho-me, Ohte-machi, Naka W) around GZ, and no remains were found.

沖廣　怜子(12)

　広島市山手町(西区)▼三篠小▼８月６日▼自宅近くで畑仕事中、背中に大やけどをした母サダ子に代わり、市立中(現・基町高)４年の兄卓見が捜すが、遺骨は不明。小学１年だった弟守望は「母や兄が死去し、詳しいことは分かりません。母は、元気なころは８月６日は市女慰霊碑と、比治山の多聞院にある父の名前が刻まれる郵便局慰霊碑に必ず参っていました。父と姉は誕生日と死没日が同じで、母は因縁なんかねぇと話していました」▼広島郵便局勤務の父憲造(37)は、爆心直下の細工町(中区大手町１丁目)の局舎に出勤し、遺骨は不明。

OKUDA Michie (13)

3 cho-me, Kusunoko-cho, Hiroshima City (Nishi W.) ▼Ohshiba Primary School ▼ Aug.6^th▼ Chiyoko, Mother, though having been exposed to A bomb and got injured in cheeks from flying grass debris while doing house chore of folding the mosquito net, tried to find her, but could not find her remians.  Minoru, the younger brother, then a 3^rd grader, who was, under school children evacuation order, evacuated through family connection to relative’s house in the birth place of Father, who then was engaged in the construction of a paper manufacturing company in Indonesia, says, “ According to Mother, when my sister, her eldest child, was still small, Mother had little time taking care of her, being busy with the menial sideline job with which to raise her three children. So, understanding her mother's hardships, Sister chose by herself to sit for the entrance exam of HiroshimaMunicipal Women's Junior High School, and then, when she passed it, she only said, “Mother, I passed the exam. ”  Father was killed in Indonesia after the end of the war, and my younger sister died from a illness two years after A bomb.  Mother raised me doing a day laborer job, shouldering a makeshift carrier made of straw and rope.  As was often the case with those having been born in Meiji Era, she was strong-spirited and never complained about her life.”

KANEGUCHI Yoshimi (13)

Mitaki-cho, Hiroshima City ▼ Ohshiba Primary School ▼ Aug.6^th ▼ As Asajiro, Father, a wholesaler of indigo dyeingcolorant, was called up for war, Yoshiko, Mother, searched for her but could not find her remains.  Mother received at school Yoshimi’s lunch box made of aluminum whose lid had her name inscribed on it and one of her sneakers.  Hogi Hiroko, her elder sister by 9 years, who was married and living in Takamatsu City, says, “I heard from my husband, who was an aviation technology major of Air Force, that Hiroshima had been destroyed with a new-type bomb, so I went to Hiroshima on 12^th and was informed of Yoshimi’s death.  I attended the same junior high school , but we had difference. Yoshimi and those of the same age, unlike my generation, had been instilled since their primary school days with the militaristic way of thinking, that is, ‘If you die, die for your country. ’And she died believing in that, exactly for her country, but now I cannot help feeling emptiness to think of such death of hers. “

金口　壬美(よしみ)(13)

　広島市三滝町▼大芝小▼８月６日▼応召中の藍(あい)染料卸の父麻次郎に代わり、母吉子が捜すが、遺骨は不明。ふたに名前を彫っていたアルミ製の弁当箱とズックの片方を、母が学校で受け取る。結婚して高松市にいた９つ違いの姉保木廣子は「航空技術少佐の夫から広島が新型爆弾でやられたと聞いて12日に戻り、妹の死を知りました。私が市女に通っていたころと違い、妹は小学校時代から『お国のため』とたたき込まれ、それを信じて死にました。今思えば国に殉じながらも、やりきれない思いが先立ちます」。
 

KIMURA Michiko (13)

 SAIKI　Toyoko(12) ▼ Ohshiba Primary School ▼

August 6^th ▼ Fukumatsu, Father, who was staying in Itsukaichi-machi, Saiki County, to look for a relocation site for his company, Touka Industry Partnership Co. at Nakashima Shin-machi ( Nakashima-cyou, Naka W.), which had been  demolished for fire prevention, went back to Hiroshima soon after A bomb, but he could not find her remains.  Toshihiko, the elder brother, then a 1^st year student of Hiroshima Technical College (current Hiroshima Univ.), who was in service under student labor force order at Ohtake Factory of Mitsubishi Chemical Co., LTD ( currently Mitsubishi Rayon Co., LTD ), says, “ One day 40 years after A bomb, I was informed by the relating department of Hiroshima City that the clothing, which had the name cloth ‘ Estuko Saiki ‘ sewn onto it, had just been found.  I think she must have gone to the ordered labor service, wearing the clothing of Etsuko, her elder sister.  I hear 60 employees died at the factory, where they were preparing for the planned fatctory relocation. “

Uchikochi-cho, Hiroshima City ▼Tenman Primary School ▼ Aug. 6^th  ▼ Kamekichi, Father, and Shizuko, Mother, looked for her, but could not find her remains. Nobuo, the elder brother, then a 3^rd year student of Hiroshima City Second High School, who had been at home recuperating from the injuries he suffered on Aug. 2^nd, including the one in the head which needed some stitches , while working under the ordered yearly labor service at Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Co. Hiroshima Machine Tool Works, says, “I vividly remember Yoshiko saying to me, “Get well soon.“  She was an active, naughty girl.  As our house collapsed and burnt out, we had no personal mementoes of hers.  The photo, her last one, was given to us by a relative after war, which I suppose was taken when she entered Hiroshima Municipal Women'sJunior High School.”

SUGITA Eiko (12)

Hakahiro-cho, Hiroshima City▼ Mishino Primary School ▼ Masuo, Father, who was exposed to A bomb on the street near his house, 1.5km GZ, went out along with some other people to look for her, but could not find the remains.  Toshiko, Mother, now aged 89, who was exposed to A bomb at home, says, “ I remember that though she passed the entrance exam of Hiroshima Municipal Women's Junior High School which she had yearned for attending, it was only on the Entrance Ceremony Day that she had the chance of wearing a uniform skirt of the school.  I saw my eldest daughter off on that day, who was heading for work, wearing a wartime pants for women, with a shovel on her sholder.  Since those days when she was a 3^rd grader, I had been raising three other infant girls, including a newborn baby at the breast, so I could not go out to look for her on A-bomb day.  Even now, each time I pray for her in front of the Buddhist altar at my house, I utter apology to her, saying “ Sorry” repeatedly without knowing it.”

SUGIYAMA Yoshiko (12)

Furuichi-machi, Asa County (Asa Minami W.)  ▼ Ohmei Primary School (current Furuichi Primary School)▼ Aug. 6^th▼   As Shigeo, Father, had been called up for war, Takeo, the elder brother, then a 3^rd year student of Sohtoku Junior High School, went to the burnt-out site of the labor service she was engaged in on 7^th morning, but could not find her remains.  He says, “ I walked across Aioi Bridge and managed to reach where the current Peace Memorial Park stands.  There were innumerable bodies around me, and I looked into faces which looked like those of girl students, or tried to get some bodies up.  As those faces were too deformed to identify and I cound not bear any more the heat from the ground which was still hot with smoldering ash, I gave it up and came back home.  Shizue, Mother, after listening to me with firm mouth, collapsed crying loud.  I could not hold back my tears as well.

杉山　美子(12)

　安佐郡古市町(安佐南区)▼嚶鳴小(現・古市小)▼８月６日▼父重雄が召集され、崇徳中３年の兄武郎が７日朝、作業現場跡に入るが、遺骨は不明。兄は「相生橋を抜けて今の平和記念公園にたどり着きました。るいるいたる死体の中、女学生らしい顔をのぞき込んだり、起こしたりしました。しかし、顔形の見分けがつかず、くすぶる地面の熱さに耐えられなくなりました。母シズエは、私の報告を口元を引き締めて聞き終えると、声を上げて泣き崩れました。私も涙が止まりませんでした」。

SOGO Harumi (13)

Nakahiro-cho, Hiroshima City ▼Hirose Primary School   ▼ Aug.6^th ▼ No remains.  Instead of Etsujyuro, Father, now aged 96, who was exposed to A bomb on his way home from Army Ammunition Supply Factory, 2.8km GZ, where he had been on the night shift till dawn, Sachiko, the younger sister, then a 4^th grader, who was staying in Somi County under school children group evacuation order, says, “ Two soldiers came to take me home so that I could see him before he died, for he had such severe burn all over his body and was expected to die soon.  Both Hisako, Mother, and Chieko, the elder sister, who had just left Hiroshima Municipal Women's Junior High School, were taking full care of Father, so no one could go out to find ‘ Haa-chan.’  The rest of the family went back to Ehime, our home town, late September.  Father never failed to go to Hiroshima every year to pray for her till he became over 70 years old.”

Masako Takahashi (12)

After her home at Kako-cho, Hiroshima City, was demolished for fire prevention , she was attending school, staying at her uncle’s in Kawauchi Village, Asa County ( Asa Minami W.).▼  Nakashima Primary School▼ Aug. 6^th ▼ As Toyojiro, Father, had been called for war, grandfather looked for her, but could not find her remains. Yoshiko, the younger sister, then a 4^th grader, says, “ Kiyoko, Mother, died from an illness in January that year, then Father was called for war, and then we had to leave the house where Masako and I had been born as it was to be demolished under fire prevention order. One misery after another visited us in that year, which made me feel I had no choice but just accept the death of my elder sister.”

YOSHIE Tanaka (12)

Mido-cho, Nishibiki, Hiroshima City ( 2 cho-me, Tohkaichi-machi, Naka W.) ▼ Hirose Primary School▼ Aug.6^th▼   She left home for the site of the service under student labor force order, wearing a pair of wartime pants belonging to Nobuko, the elder sister, then a 4^th year student of Hiroshima Municipal Women's Junior High School.  Her uncle identified her body on 7^th, in Gangi, Motoyasugawa, by the name cloth sewn onto the pants.  Nobuko was exposed to A bomb at Yokokawa Station on her way, shouldering her small brother on her back, to the house of Father’s parents’ in Mitori-i Village ( Asa Minami W.), as the factory where she was working under labor service order was closed due to Electricity Saving Day. She says, “ On that morning, my sister said, “May I wear your pants today? “ and then left home.  First, mother, who was alive having burns all over, was carried to my grandparents’house, and then the body of my sister.  I could not bear to see them, so I quietly left the room. “ ▼ Kazuto, Father (49), then an employee of Japan Electric Generation and Transmission Co. was A bombed and died at home, 700m GZ.  Miyoko (37), Mother, was exposed to A bomb at Tokaichi Stop of the street car, nearby their house, and died on 9^th.

TABE　Sumiko（１２）

  Koi-cho, Hiroshima City ▼ Hikarimichi Primary School　▼ Aug.6^th▼ Miyotaro, Father, then a ceramic wholesaler, who was exposed to A bomb at home, 2.3km GZ, had trouble walking, so Tatsu, Mother, went out to look for her but could not find her remains.  Sumio, the elder brother, who got demobilized in Marshall Islands ( currently Republic of Marshall Islands) and came back home in Oct. that year, says, “ I got active-duty enrollment in First Western Force, Hiroshima in January, 1942, then, finishing Military Accounting School, I got transferred to the 122th Infantry Regiment, then dispatched to the Philippines in Aug, the same year.  Since then, I lost contact with my family, so I had no knowledge about her entrance into HiroshimaMunicipal Women's Junior High School.  After the logistic support was cut off by hostile countries over there at war front, I was in the hell-like state of Japanese soldiers fighting and killing each other over just one piece of dog biscuit.  So when I came back home in Japan, I felt nothing even when I heard that my sister had perished.  Frankly, at that time I had no such feeling natural to human beings as sorrow or loneliness.”

DOI Chiyoko (12)

3 cho-me, Yokogawa-cho, Hirosima City (Nishi W.) ▼

Mishino Primary School  ▼ Aug.6th  ▼　The remains were identified on 8^th evening, from the name cloth sewn onto the wartime pants she was wearing, in the southern area of the current Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,  by Kankuro, Father, and Chiyono, Mother, who both got buried under the rubbles of their collapsed house, and Nobuko, the elder sister, who, after having left Hiroshima Municipal Women's Junior High School, was an employee of and exposed at the headquarter of Chugoku Electricity Supply Co., 680m GZ.  Instead of Mother, now aged 97, Nobuko says, “ As Chiyoko said that morning that she had a backache, Mother had her wear extra pair of pants, which was actually newly rationed for Father.  When we found her out, she was totally deformed and her eye-balls had popped out.  We cut off some of her hair with Father’s knife and cremated the body on the spot.The day before that, Emiko, the other younger sister of mine, who was older than Chiyoko and staying at the school dormitory at that time, dropped in at home, so they two enjoyed having a chat.  They both could not have imagined they were to die the next day. ”▼ Emiko, one of the two elder sisters (16), who had left the same juniorl high school in March and was a year one student of the fresh-opened Hiroshima Women Higher Normal School (currently Hiroshima Univ.), was exposed to A bomb while in the school building, and no remains were found.  The first lesson at the school was scheduled on Aug. 6^th.