Entrevistas

1. Her early memories before the war

2. Learning English

3. Taking her father’s ashes, going back to Japan, learning the koto and culture

4. Sensing the war was coming

5. Coming back to America from Japan before the war

6. Working at the family flower shop, meeting Greta Garbo

7. Her experience of Japanese American Evacuation

8. Memories of Manzanar

9. Working in the camp hospital

10. Wind in camp

11. Her grandfather and Dr. Thompson

12. Her grandmother comes to Manzanar

13. Experiencing prejudice after the war

Kozawa,Sumiko

(1916-2016) Florista

Taking her father’s ashes, going back to Japan, learning the koto and culture

Well, I didn’t know how long, but I thought at least two, three years, you know, to learn. I learned the koto, and I learned the calligraphy. First of all your manners, which was very important. My aunt taught that. You have to hold your hands a certain way. Your feet have to, with a kimono, walk with a pigeon toe like this. It’s not for me. But that aunt, she was brought up that way. Even her language was altogether different. It’s a language, I guess that’s the way they talk in the palace. Many things, I didn’t understand what she was saying.

caligrafia ( cultura cultura japonesa koto instrumentos musicais caligrafia escrita

Data: May 24, 2011

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Sumiko Kozawa nasceu em 1916, em Los Angeles. A mais velha de cinco filhos, Sumi passou três anos no Japão antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, aprendendo koto, arranjos florais e cerimônia do chá. A loja de flores de sua família, a Tokio Florist em Silver Lake, era popular na comunidade de Hollywood por causa de suas flores frescas e preços razoáveis. Sumi não só ajudou, mas também teve a oportunidade de conhecer muitas pessoas, incluindo a famosa estrela do cinema mudo, Greta Garbo. Quando o Japão bombardeou Pearl Harbor, Sumi e sua família foram enviados para Manzanar. Lá, ela ajudou a cuidar da família, cuidando de seu avô e de sua irmã mais nova. Ela morreu em dezembro de 2016, aos 92 anos de idade. (Dezembro de 2016)