Letter from M. Kurima to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 22, 1946 [in Japanese]
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- Created Date
- 1946-01-22
- Description
A letter from Tadashi Mac and Fusaye Alice Kurima in Chicago, Illinois, to their relatives, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California. Kurima thanks them for the Christmas gift and congratulates on their daughter, Hatsuno's marriage. He also writes about Masao Okine who sent a 5-yen bill to Kurima from Japan.
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.
- Creator
Kurima, Tadashi Mac: author
Kurima, Fusaye Alice: author
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
- Subjects
- Geographic communities--Illinois--Chicago
Community activities--Weddings
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement - Location
- Chicago, Illionois
- Type
- text
- Format
- Correspondence
- Language
- Japanese
- Rights
- 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.
- Chicago citation style
- Kurima, Tadashi Mac: author, Kurima, Fusaye Alice: author. Letter from M. Kurima to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 22, 1946 [in Japanese]. 1946-01-22. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6768. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Kurima, Tadashi Mac: author, Kurima, Fusaye Alice: author, (1946-01-22) Letter from M. Kurima to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 22, 1946 [in Japanese]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6768
- MLA citation style
- Kurima, Tadashi Mac: author, Kurima, Fusaye Alice: author. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6768>.