Box 1

Scope and Contents 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...