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A letter from Shohachi Wada in Taiji-cho, Wakayama, Japan to Tomoji Wada. Shohachi is Tomoji's adopted son who succeed the head of the Wada family in Japan. He reports to Tomoji about the 350th memorial service for the Wada family, which was held on December 20-21. Shohachi encloses a family photo taken during the event and identifies the attendees who are photographed. He also lists the expenses for the service. He notes that the temple had never hosted the service commemorating longer than 100th and expresses his disappointment with the Taiji-cho's people who do not respect the whaling pioneer's 350th memorial service. 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 3 pages, 9 x 7 inches, handwritten application/pdf
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