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Title
Letter from Kunio Nakatani to Chisato Nishi, December 9, 1944[?]
Creator
Nakatani, Kunio: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1944-12-09
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
A letter written by Kunio Nakatani to Chisato Nishi. He notifies her that he is leaving for battlefields the next day.
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, handwritten; 10 x 7.25 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_nak_0115
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27766
Language
Japanese
Subject
Japan--Military
Japan--During World War II
Identity and values--Nisei
Place
Saeki-gun, Japan
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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