Last Logs on August 5

(Summary from her father’s memoir)

“She left home and said goodbye, wearing her monpe trousers and straw hat with her shoulder bag.
… I waited for her but she hadn’t returned home. ... I searched for her everywhere in vain. ... “Etsuko-chan is here.”...However, she was in a miserable state, having gone blind and her whole body swelled up. On the morning of the 7th, the next day, a mysterious phenomenon suddenly happened. Etsuko’s blinded eyes opened!...“Can you see dad?” “I can.” After she had a mixed expression between happy and sad, her condition took a sudden turn for the worse. Then she finally departed from this life ”

Mutsuko Ishizaki (then, 12) was exposed to the bomb at her building demolition work site and went missing. Although her father Shuichi (then, 42) searched for her in every area day after day, he could not find her anywhere.

(Summary from her mother’s memoir)

“On the morning on August 6,...when Tomiko left home as usual with her emergency pack and hoe, wearing her school uniform.
…After the atomic bomb was dropped, despite my husband's search for Tomiko here and there that day and on the morning on the 7th, she was still missing. On the morning on the 8th, seeing a message on the message board of First Hiroshima Prefectural Girls High School, he learned that Tomiko had escaped in the direction of Koi. But when he rushed to find her, he was told that Tomiko had already breathed her last in the morning when it was still dusky. According to my husband, she was wearing her senior’s yukata.”