Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Setsu Kanehara Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1945-1964
Collection number: 2010
Creator:
Nagata, Setsuko, 1916-
Extent:
1 box
(0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Setsu Kanehara was born in 1916 in Oakland, California. She was sent to Japan and graduated from a girls' middle school in
Miyazaki Prefecture. She returned to the United States in 1936. A poet and author, she used Setsuko Nagata as her pen name.
The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and mimeographed bulletins of Haiku societies. Correspondents
include friends, family, Issei poets and writers, and poets and writers in Japan. Materials in this collection are in Japanese
and English.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright has not been assigned to Library Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Library
Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Setsu Kanehara Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Kanehara was born in 1916 in Oakland, California; she was sent to Japan and graduated from a girls' middle school in Miyazaki
Prefecture; she returned to the United States in 1936; a poet and author, she used Setsuko Nagata as her pen name.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and mimeographed bulletins of Haiku societies related to the life
and career of poet and author Setsu Kanehara. Correspondents include friends, family, Issei poets and writers, the Japanese
American Research Project, and poets and writers in Japan. The newspaper clippings are of reviews of Kanehara's books. The
bulletins of Haiku societies are from Minidoka, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Denver (ca. 1945-50).
Materials in this collection are in Japanese and English.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Personal correspondence, 1949-64.
- Miscellany, ca. 1945-50.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nagata, Setsuko, 1916- --Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Women poets, Japanese--United States--Archival resources.
Japanese American authors--Correspondence.
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