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Title
Letter from Jim to Kanji, August 13, 1943
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-08-13
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Letter from Jim [Kunio Nakatani?] to Kanji __i. He writes that he has had the opportunity to gain numerous interesting experiences in coming to understand the ways of Japanese life. He is not too sure whether he will be selected for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The collection consists of documents, diaries, letters, books, calendars, newspapers, photographs, artifacts and audiovisual media pertaining to Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani, a Japanese-born woman who lived in Isleton, California. During World War II, her family was incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake incarceration camps. After the war, she moved to Los Angeles and studied tea with Madame Sosei Matsumoto, and became a tea master acknowledged by the Urasenke Headquarters in Japan. The collection also contains letters from her son, Kunio, who served aboard the Yamato battleship for the Empire of Japan during World War II.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages; 11 x 6.75 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_nak_0241
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27682
Language
Japanese
English
Subject
Japan--Military
Japan--During World War II
Identity and values--Nisei
Place
Nakakanbara-gun, Japan
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani Papers

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