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Title
Letter from Masayo Hasegawa to Kan Wada, August 23, 1967
Creator
Hasegawa, Masayo: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1967-08-23
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A letter from Masayo Hasegawa in Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan to Kan Wada. Masayo informed Kan that a package from Kan arrived. She appreciates Kan for her gift of the medicines and clothes. Masayo also notifies her that Yoshio's wedding will be held in March in the next year and the engagement ceremony will take place on August 26. She appreciates Kan, Joe, and Mary for their generous support to help Yoshio to arrange his marriage. She also informs Kan that she shipped a package to Kan, enclosing Japanese medications for stomach pain.
Tomoji Wada was an interpreter, bookkeeper, operator of a grocery store, and manufacturer of tofu and mochi on Terminal Island, California prior to World War II. He established a tofu manufacturing plant at the Poston camp in Arizona during the war, and became a gardener after returning from the incarceration camp to Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of receipts, ledgers, taxes, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, journals, guidebooks, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Materials include born-digital objects created and transferred from the donor.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page, 7 x 10.75 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_01_33_011
csudh_wad_0273
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37109
Language
Japanese
Subject
Identity and values--Issei
Japan--Post-World War II
Community activities--Weddings
Place
Neyagawa-shi, Japan
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84q8253/
Tomoji Wada Family Papers

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