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Description
A collection of letters written by Banjin Koike, that is, Kyo Koike who was a physician, poet, and photographer in Seattle, Washington. He had been a member of the Rainier Ginsha, that is, a haiku society in Seattle prior to incarceration. The Minidoka Ginsha, a haiku society, was formed in the Minidoka camp where he and other members of the Rainier Ginsha were incarcerated. He was an editor for the Minidoka Ginsha's bulletins. After he was released from the camp, he returned to Seattle and resumed the Rainier Ginsha. It appears that he sent the Rainier Ginsha's bulletins to the Tule Lake Ginsha, a haiku society in the Tule Lake. His letters addressed the members of the Tule Lake Ginsha. The Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection comprises of the wartime publications collected by Kiyoshi Uyekawa while incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp, such as Tule Lake newsletters and bulletins, materials issued by the Pro-Japanese group, Sokoku Hoshidan (or Hoshi Dan), WRA publications, his family's incarceration documents, which include documents regarding his and his wife, Mitsuye‘s repatriation, his fictional works’ manuscripts, bulletins and manuscripts of haiku poems authored by the members of the haiku societies incarcerated in the camps, and letters from Kyo Koide, who was a prominent figure in the community as a photographer, physician, and poet under the pseudonym, Banjin Koide.
World War II--Incarceration camps--Arts and literature World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities Arts and literature--Literary arts--Poetry--Haiku
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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