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Title
Letter from Miyuki Matsuura to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, March 31, 1946 [in Japanese]
Creator
Matsuura, Miyuki: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1946-03-31
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 Miyuki Matsuura to her uncle and aunt, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. In the letter, she writes about her family in Japan. She has received a letter from her family in Japan and learned about their situations. She writes about her father who suffers from flash burns because of the atomic bombing in August. Her Japanese family has not yet seen Masao Okine who is stationed in Japan. She also updates on her current life, living with her family and her sister's family together and growing lettuce in San Juan Batista, California. The arrival date of the letter, April 3, 1946, 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.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 8.75 x 7 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
oki_01_61_001
csudh_oki_0140
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6739
Language
Japanese
Subject
Geographic communities--California
Japan--Post-World War II
World War II--Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Identity and values--Issei
Place
San Juan Bautista, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Okine Collection

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