Lucy Komori
Lucy Komori is a sansei from Vancouver, Canada. She has a deep, abiding curiosity about the stories of Japanese Canadians from pre-war struggles to post-war rebuilding and a desire to share these stories with younger generations of yonsei and gosei. Lucy has been involved with the JC community in Vancouver for over 50 years through taiko and other community and arts initiatives.
Updated June 2022
Stories from This Author
Tsunagu: Connecting Family Stories through the Generations
June 7, 2022 • Lucy Komori
I have a curiosity about my father’s family history. Why did my grandfather cross a vast ocean from Wakayama, Japan to an unknown land to seek his fortune? Why don’t we have any relatives in Japan any longer? What are the family traits that I have acquired through osmosis? My father and his brothers were not storytellers, so family lore and values were not explicitly shared with my Sansei cousins and me. Only in recent years have I had the …
