Finding Aid for the Setsu Kanehara Papers, ca. 1945-1964
Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 2002
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Setsu Kanehara Papers, ca. 1945-1964
Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection
Collection number: 2010
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone:310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, November 2008
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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. Department of 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, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of 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 the Department of 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, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Setsu Kanehara Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Related Material
Container List
Kanehara Papers
1950-1963
Physical Description: 6 folders
Box 153, Folder 9
Correspondence with the Japanese American Research Project (JARP)
re donation of her papers.
August 1963-February 1964..
Physical Description: (5 items)
Box 153, Folder 10
Personal correspondence with her relatives and friends.
1949-1962
Physical Description: (17 letters)
Language of Material: In Japanese.
Box 153, Folder 11
Personal correspondence with poets and writer in Japan.
1950-1953
Physical Description: (9 letters)
Language of Material: In Japanese.
Box 153, Folder 12
Personal correspondence with Issei poets and writers.
1949-1963
Physical Description: (45 items)
Box 153, Folder 13
Newspaper clippings: reviews on Kanehara's books.
n.d.
Physical Description: (6 pieces)
Box 153, Folder 14
Mimeographed bulletins of Haiku societies in Minidoka, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Denver.
ca. 1945-1950
Physical Description: (4 items)
Language of Material: In Japanese.
