Family and friend correspondence , circa 1920-1960; undated

Included are letters that Sukegoro and Chiyoko Tawa (田和助五郎・千代子) received from their family and friends between the 1920s and 1950s. The senders of the prewartime letters include: Katsumi "Kokki" and Seiko Miyake, who were Japanese watercolor artists; Rosho Toyotake (豊竹呂昇), or Naka Nagata (永田仲), who was a female gidaiyu, that is, a Japanese puppet theatre narrator and musician; Koshun Murakami (村上孝俊), a Buddhist priest in Okayama, Japan; Tomojiro Kunitomi (國富友次郎), who was an educator and the mayor of Okayama, Japan; and Kametaro Matsuda; Tetta Koyama; Shinzo Yuasa; and Marukumo Fujinkai. The Wartime letters were written by Bishop Dojun Ochi (越智堂順) of the Soto Zen Buddhism, who was interned in the Lordsburg Internment Camp and the Santa Fe Internment Camp in New Mexico during the war and worked at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey after being released; Father Hugh Lavery, who was a Japanese-speaking Maryknoll priest in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and supported the Japanese American community, traveling between WRA incarceration camps during the war; the Tawas' relatives and friends who were also incarcerated, including Masakazu and Komine Tawa, Tetsuo Tawa, Shoko Murase, Kazunosuke Arai, Iwa Watanabe, Seiichi Nako, Masao Kurisu, Jutaro Narumi, and Tokujiro Ikeda. The senders of the postwar letters include: Sadako Yoshida, George Katsutaro Yabuki, Iwataro Oka, and Joichi and Kinuko Okubo.

三宅克己 Miyake, Katsumi "Kokki" and 三宅せい子 Miyake, Seiko, 1929-1939

Box 1 Folder 1-38

豊竹呂昇 Toyotake, Rosho, 1925-1929

Box 1 Folder 39-49

村上孝俊 Murakami, Koshun, 1935-1938

Box 1 Folder 50-54

Family and friends during the prewar period

Box 1 Folder 55-60

Family and friends during the war

Box 2 Folder 1-23

Family and friends during the postwar period

Box 2 Folder 24-29