Kyozo and Kuma definitely believed that the birth of older Kyota and then of younger Kyoji was the miracle an angel Yoriko brought to them, so that all their children were a gift from heaven.

Kyota had fair skin and a touchy child, so they worried about his weak constitution. But such worry was completely dispelled when he entered elementary school.
In a higher grade, he, the same with Kyoji, two years younger, was outstanding in studies, and an ace pitcher and a strong batter for baseball.
Both of them gave up baseball dream after the sand beach case, but in junior high school the older showed superiority in soft tennis enough to take part in a county meeting. The younger, not weak, was also all-round in any sport and also acted as a pupil council president.

The father spent the days in the rice field and fish-diving, and the mother managing the grocery store.
After both sons entered senior high school, it became difficult to make them help work in the rice field, not to mention deliver foodstuffs or drink. The parents had already sold the field on the hill, and the rice field before long.

Yoriko went to a cookery school after Shingu Senior High School. Kyota to a university in Tokyo and Kyoji the same after two years.
The parents did not neglect them in any way, but they never stuck their nose into their children's studies. Their wish was that their children would be helpful to the society by studying. The parents left them as they liked and they grew up by themselves.

2. To Show Diving to Son's Friend

In the summer of Showa 37 (1962) when Kyota, the older son, was junior in university.
Komori-kun, his school friend in university, visited Kyota's hometown Miwasaki all the way from Tokyo and stayed at Wozumi family for one week. He is a native Tokyoite and a cheerful guy of medium height and build, the same with Kyota.
Back to one year before, when they were freshmen after a half year since the entrance to H University, he made friends with Kyota who was so lonely speaking only a dialect of his hometown. He taught Kyota the standard language, let him stay at his house in Nerima Ward and taste his mother's home cooking. Kyota had brought up only with local dishes, so he had eaten only udon noodle, not soba noodle, not to mention natto (fermented soybeans) until then.
It was Komori-kun who saved Kyota from strong homesick.

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Kyota had no trouble with swimming but, with no further will, had not learned more by his father.
When he decided to invite Komori-kun to his hometown, he asked his father one thing. It was to show his father's diving and his skill with an underwater gun directly. Needless to say, his father accepted the son's request with a smile across his face.

On a wonderful summer day for the view of diving.
Father Kyozo rows a small boat with two young guys on it. A life buoy is certainly ready for the school friend not to drown in the sea.
Kyozo drops anchor at the rock on the side of Suzushima Island. He is all set for diving and quietly gets down the sea with fundoshi (Japanese loincloth), a diving mask, an underwater gun of his own made and bottsuri basket for games into it. While Komori-kun watches him seriously and presses the shutter button of his box-type camera several times, he takes a deepbreath once and then dives deep into the sea.
The sea is calm under the blue sky. Not too hot, Komori-kun looks comfortable.

After nearly one hour, a large box for preys on the small boat is full of sea breams, Ise lobsters, abalones, ... They are all for delicious dishes at the dinner. Seeing Komori-kun excited so often, Kyota proudly thanks his father, who on his side is enjoying his usual life rather than fulfilling the son's wish.

At night, mother Kuma puts all her cooking skills to good use to her son's school friend.
Raw as Sashimi, grilled, cooked, ... such gorgeous local dishes, all of them are the first experience for Komori-kun. He does not forget to press the shutter button for the deluxe dishes, and then has satisfactory taste of every food, listening to the father's explanation in a broad dialect.
The son Kyota loves abalone no more than any sea food. He puts it with vinegar into his mouth until being stuffed.
Both of his parents thank his school friend for his everyday kindness to their son, and realize the son's sure growth.

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Kyozo went on diving, his reason for living, afterward, too. But within a couple of years, he began to feel unusual in his body.

3. Go to Heaven

The days of his poor physical condition are lasting. Irregular and bad in a bowel movement and sometimes bloody urine, bloody stool. He does not mind such things, but the body is honest. He already sold the rice field, and diving with his underwater gun is now hard to him.
His body has become weaker day by day, so now he has to lie in bed most of the day.

In the summer of Showa 40 (1965), he got a lot of bloody stool in the condition of moving difficulty and was brought to Shingu Hospital in an ambulance.
Younger son Kyoji, returning home in the school summer vacation, informed of it to his sister and brother. At that tme, sister Yoriko was under practice of managing the Japanese-style restaurant in Nishinomiya City after the marriage with its son and heir. Older son Kyota, entered a steel company, was working at a factory in Nagoya.

In the result of various examinations for a couple of days, the hospital diagnosed him as: "large intestine terminal cancer, so quick operation is necessary."

The operation took several hours while Kuma and the three children were waiting in the next room. After the operation, the doctor in charge told them that the cancer was spread all over the body to be sorry and that further operation was only a waste. Then he added, "I hope he will be alive for another half a year."

His bedridden life lasts on the second floor at home.
The view of the sea widened far beyond the window is the best healing for him. His young days in Arafura Sea come out to his mind one after another.
Mostly due to the relaxed days by his love's consideration led happiness to him, he lived nearly for four years afterward in spite of the hospital's diagnosis.

The home doctor said to Kuma, "He may have only few days in life. Let the children know about it."
It was in late April of Showa 34 (1969).
At that time, Yoriko was a young hostess of the restaurant in Nishinomiya, Kyota was working for the production prosess management in Nagoya Factory of the steel company, and Kyoji was an office worker at the Nagoya branch of a main bank.
All of them returned to their hometown immediately.

Kyozo ended his life at the age of 68 in May with kuma and the children around him.
Even by accident the older son Kyota went to the United States to study by the order of his company after two months. Informed of it before his death, father Kyozo passed away in a satisfactory look that everything of his life was rewarded by his wife Kuma and the children.