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Shinshi-san went into her second bedroom, the one filled with mulberry leaves, and checked on the status of her silkworms. Hundreds of white skinny caterpillars ...
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Jou Schnell looked out her window of her small four-room, wood-framed house on Gold Hill. Through the walnut trees, dappled light streamed onto the dew-covered ...
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In the spring of 1869, a group of Aizu warriors migrated to California after their defeat during the Boshin Civil War. They founded the Wakamatsu ...
The trials and tribulations of pre–World War II Japanese on the West Coast are well documented, but there was a small group of them ...
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Read Part 2 >> Kuni Takes a Local as His Wife Following the collapse of the Wakamatsu Colony, a settler by the name of Kuninosuke Masumizu ...
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Read Part 1 >> The story of the first Japanese woman to be buried in American soil emerges from history’s shadows. The Wakamatsu Colony had ...
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History of Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm About 150 years ago in 1869, the first group of approximately 22 immigrants to the U.S. mainland ...
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その2を読む >>日系人たちにはよく知られた墓だった「おけいの墓」の前に話を戻そう。周囲は草木ばかりで ...
その1を読む >>プロシア人に率いられて太平洋を渡る会津が官軍に攻め入られ鶴ヶ城が陥落したのが1868年秋、この翌年の春までに、会津を出てカリフォルニアにわたった一団があった。 当時 ...
幕末から明治にかけての会津藩をめぐる物語には、どこか同情を誘うところがあり、歴史好きのなかにも会津ファンは多いという。戊辰戦争で官軍(会津では西軍と呼ぶ ...
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