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Read Part 4 >> Sakichi Yanagisawa, formerly of the Wakamatsu Colony, returned to Japan in 1902 and started to teach Western cooking at Japan Women’s …
Read Part 1 >> According to Sakichi Yanagisawa’s family koseki, he was born on July 13, 1848. His domicile was Sakamoto Town, Usui County, Gunma …
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For the past two days, Okei’s teeth chattered, all day and all night. It was as if a spirit had entered her body and she …
The sounds of the explosions seemed to get louder every day. Kintaro felt his whole body shake as the booms seemed close to shattering his …
Shin: To become a person who is trusted, and who can trust others. —a principle of the Aizu people As the Wakamatsu colonists began to …
Matsugoro Ohto wiped the sweat off of his forehead as he and his fellow carpenter, Kuninosuke “Kuni” Masumizu, took a break from their woodworking project …
Keiko Shinshi hadn’t been feeling well for days. Her husband, Tatsutaro, thought it was because the last mulberry tree in the colony had died. Their …
Among the Japan-born Wakamatsu colonists, Makoto and Kuni were the strongest English speakers. As a result, when the colony’s founder, John Henry Schnell, announced that …
Okei Ito hated mosquitos. In the California inaka, they seemed to swarm everywhere, breeding in water collected in surrounding ditches. In these same ditches, old …
“Kuni, place your bet,” the miner said, first in English and then in his native Portuguese. Kuninosuke Masumizu, called Kuni in this nighttime gambling den …
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