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Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Related Material
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Title: Yasui Family papers
Creator:
Yasui family
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2010.20
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes, 2 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1907-1946
Abstract: Satosuke Yasui was born in 1881 in Hiroshima Prefecture. He arrived in Hawaii in 1907, where he was a newspaperman, Japanese
language school principal and teacher, and publisher and editor of the Maui Shimbun. He also served as an officer of the Japanese
Association of Maui. The collection consists of personal papers, diaries, correspondence, instructional materials, informational
publications, sound recordings, artwork, and photographs related to the Yasui family. The collection also includes papers
related to the Japanese Association of Wailuku, Hawaii, and a notebook of sermon memos kept by Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest,
Taksuhiko Matsuda, at Tule Lake. Some materials in this collection are in Japanese.
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Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English, some materials are in Japanese.
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[Identification of item], Yasui Family Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Japanese American Research Project of the Japanese American Citizens League, 1973.
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Processed by Yoko Shimojo, with assistance from Elizabeth Sheehan, 2007, in the Center For Primary Research and Training (CFPRT).
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Satosuke Yasui was born in 1881 in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Hiroshima Normal School and arrived
in Hawaii in 1907. He was a newspaperman and Japanese language school principal and teacher. He was also publisher and editor
of the Maui Shimbun (1920-41). He served as an officer of the Japanese Association of Maui.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of personal papers, diaries, correspondence, instructional materials, informational publications, sound
recordings, artwork, and photographs related to the Yasui family. Personal papers consist of Satosuke Yasui's 18 notebook
diaries (1910-41), correspondence, and miscellaneous items such as practice sheets of calligraphy, instructional materials,
Japanese sound recordings, artwork, and a photo album. The collection also includes papers related to the Japanese Assn. of
Wailuku, Hawaii, a small amount of articles published in the Maui Shimbun, and a notebook of sermon memos kept by Jodo Shinshu
Buddhist priest Taksuhiko Matsuda, at Tule Lake.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Artwork
- Diaries
- Miscellaneous
- Organizational files
- Photographs
- Printed materials.
Related Material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sound recordings.
Family papers.
Photographs.
Japanese American families -- Hawaii -- Archives.
Teachers -- Hawaii -- Archives.
Diaries.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)
Yasui family
Yasui, Matsuno--Archives.
Yasui, Satosuke--Archives.