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A letter from Kamekichi and Sueno Nakano in Hiroshima, Japan to Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. The letter is singed by both Kamekichi and Sueno, but it appears that it is written by Sueno Nakano. In the letter, Sueno notes that her requested items have arrived and thanks the Okines for them. She has shared tobacco and ajinomoto [monosodium glutamate] with Jokichi Yamanaka, but he does not accept sugar because he believes that the Nakanos need to use it when they provide meals to the people who help to build their barn. She has also shared ajinomoto and soap bars with the Sasakis in Miyake, Hiroshima, Japan. Sueno is thankful for the sugar and ajinomoto, explaining that she was able to cook and provide delicious meals when people come to help the Nakanos to build a barn. Her husband, Kamekichi, admires of the good quality of ajinomoto, and her son, Akito, shares appreciation for the tobacco and clothes. Learning that Fumiko Yamanaka left for the U.S. on April 30, she regrets that she was not able to prepare any gifts that Fumiko could bring to Seiichi and Tomeyo. Sueno explains that she was planning to give the Okines dried persimmons or rice crackers that she makes, but she learned that both were not allowed to be brought in. The arrival date of the letter, July 6, 1948, is recorded on the backside of the envelope. The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines.
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