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For the past two days, Okei’s teeth chattered, all day and all night. It was as if a spirit had entered her body and she …
Matsugoro Ohto wiped the sweat off of his forehead as he and his fellow carpenter, Kuninosuke “Kuni” Masumizu, took a break from their woodworking project …
Okei Ito hated mosquitos. In the California inaka, they seemed to swarm everywhere, breeding in water collected in surrounding ditches. In these same ditches, old …
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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The Wakamatsu Colony, born of the dreams and labor of the new immigrants, collapsed in only two years. One of the members of the group …
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 arrived …
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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、まさに野の中にひっそりと作られた墓碑のあると…
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…
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