A "card game" for the Way of Tea, modeled after a favorite New Year's game known as the "One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each" (Hyakunin Isshu). There are several versions of the original game, one in which the name and portrait of the poet appears on...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
The damask (donsu) fabric of this dashibukusa employs a stylized pine cone motif known as karamatsu (Chinese pine) over which an emblem of stylized wisteria leaves has been embroidered in gold thread. It was presented to Nakatani Sokiku in her...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Anniversaries, etc.; Deukmejian, George
California Governor George Deukmejian issued a proclamation designating Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1986 as "A Day of Remembrance." Day of Remembrance observances are being planned by various groups. Rep. Robert T. Matsui accepted an invitation to be a...
Japanese American art [lcsh]; Calligraphy [lcsh]; Postcards [lcsh]; New Year's Day cards -- Japan [lcsh]; Tsuruda, Yoshio Harry [aacr2];
Postcard was printed in Tokyo Japan, but was originally a postcard of only flowers. Yoshio Harry Tsuruda most likely painted the calligraphy. Tsuruda family name appears on lower left corner. It appears to be neither mailed nor does it have any...
New Year decorations, etc. [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Plates (Tableware) [lcsh];
One of a set of five plates. Might have contained mochi (rice cakes), which are served at breakfast for the first three days of January as a means of praying for longevity and health.
"A bibliography of titles in the California State University, Sacramento, Library."
Vols for 1969-1972 issued by the University under its earlier name: Sacramento State College
Vols. for 1969- compiled by John Liberty
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Clothing and dress [lcsh]
The kanreki celebrates the completion of five Chinese zodiac cycles and the beginning of an individual's second childhood. In the lunar calendar, the passage of each of the five elements -- wood, fire, earth, metal, and water -- with each of twelve...
Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Folk art -- Japan [lcsh]; Temari [lcsh]; Textile crafts [lcsh];
Decorative textile balls originally used as children's toys in Japan. Today, temari represent a highly valued and cherished gift symbolizing deep friendship and loyalty. It is traditional for a mother to make a ball for her daughter as a New...
Japanese American families [lcsh]; Japanese American women [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh]; Tsukamoto, Mary [aacr2]; Tsukamoto, Marielle [aacr2];
Photograph from Mary Tsuruko Dakusaku Tsukamoto's photograph collection. Chosei Taro Dakuzaka married Kame Yoshinaga in 1904. Chosei Taro Dakuzaka immigrated to the United States in 1904. His wife joined him 13 years later. Their six children are:...
Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Temari [lcsh]; Folk art -- Japan [lcsh]; Textile crafts [lcsh];
Decorative textile balls originally used as children's toys in Japan. Today, temari represent a highly valued and cherished gift symbolizing deep friendship and loyalty. It is traditional for a mother to make a ball for her daughter as a New Year's...
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Kitchen utensils [lcsh]; Rice -- Social aspects [lcsh];
Traditionally, Japanese American family members, friends, and neighbors gathered prior to New Year's Day to make special rice cakes called mochi. The women cooked the rice; the men pounded the rice in the usu with wooden mallets, and the children...
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Rice -- Social aspects [lcsh];
The usu was carved from a solid granite stone by the Ruhkala Brothers in circa 1934. The Ruhkala's owned a granite quarry in Rocklin California. Traditionally, Japanese American family members, friends, and neighbors gathered prior to New Year's...
Japanese American farmers [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh]; Agriculture -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh]; Family farms -- California --Sacramento County [lcsh];
First year of hop picking for the Okano family after resettlement from the camps.
Family farms -- California --Sacramento County [lcsh]; Agriculture -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh]; Japanese American farmers [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh];
First year of hop picking for the Okano family after resettlement from the camps.
Japanese Americans -- California [lcsh]; Japanese American families [lcsh]; Dakuzaku, Kame Yoshinaga [aacr2]; Dakuzaku, Chosei Taro [aacr2]; Dakuzaku, Haruko Ruth [aacr2]; Tsukamoto, Mary [aacr2]; Oda, Nobuko Dakuzaku [aacr2]; Oda, Chosin Dakuzaku...
Photo taken on New Years, Emperor Taisho's sixth year, in San Francisco. Identified, L to R: Kame Dakuzaku holding Mary Tsuruko (age 2), Ruth Haruko (age 4), Chosei Taru Dakuzaku, Nobuko Oraku and Chosin Dakuzaku.
King Sho (Taiko number 6) was the last king of Okinawa. King Sho went to Tokyo in the year Meiji 12 (1878). He reluctantly gave up the Shuri castle and residence to the Emperor Meifi and the Japanese government. Ryukyu (Okinawa) had been an...
