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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...

Scope and Contents Materials are mainly documents that Chiyoko Tawa received during her incarceration at the Poston camp. Included are letters issued by the Department of Justice Alien Enemy Control Unit regarding Sukegoro Tawa's internment, petition signed by incarcerees at the Poston camp requesting the release of him, correspondence issued by Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, California Bank City Market Office, Treasury Department Office of Collection of Internal Revenue, and other items such as,...

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Included are portraits and wedding photos given to the Tawas from their friends. There are a portrait of Sukegoro Tawa which was presumably taken when he married Chiyoko in 1921, a portrait of Seiko Miyake who was a Japanese watercolor painter, and a portrait of a woman holding an infant, who were most likely Chiyoko and her grandson, Katsumi, which was taken to celebrate Katsumi's 100 days.

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Included are a clipping featuring scholarship recipients at the Poston I High School commencement, which includes Junko Tawa; receipts for purchase in the prewar Japan; haiku poems, which were presumably written by Sukegoro Tawa in the Poston camp during the war and after the war. There is also a file containing the Tawa family tree, which was provided by the donor for research purposes.