This persimmon tree is located at a private residence next to the Nagasaki Motor Bus's Yanagidani-machi bus stop.

In the summer the well-formed tree's luxuriant foliage forms a large canopy, and in the autumn it bears fruit. However, a look at the base of the tree shows that the trunk was burnt by exposure to the atomic bomb and the viewer's eyes will be caught by the sorrowful surgical scars resulting from treatment against harmful insects entering its wounds. The considerable age of the tree is evident from the fine girth at its base, but the two trunks extending upwards from there are not particularly thick.

The tree is said to be over 250 years old and had already grown into a fine shape by the time of the bombing, but apparently the trunk was split and smoldering along with the branches. Even so, the next spring new branches and leaves began to appear, and a further year later it started to bear fruit again.

Located 2.3km from the hypocenter in a district that was known as Nishikitago at the time of the bombing, this tree too came through a life or death crisis and there can be no doubt that its vitality amazed the hibakusha and gave them courage.

Second generation saplings from the tree have been transplanted near and far, as close as the grounds of the Nishikita Elementary School that serves the locality and as distant as South Korea and the United Kingdom. The saplings are being planted in many places where people who wish for peace come together.