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Description
A letter written by Kunio Nakatani to his parents on the day before he left for battlefields. He describes what he has been thinking about in Japan after he left the U.S. He was initially excited about studying in Japan, but was disappointed with the Japanese students who he met at a university. He was interested in the agriculture and wanted to study in the field when he was able to return from the war. 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 8 pages; 8 x 6 inches, handwritten application/pdf
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