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Title: Toshihei Jikihara papers
Collection number: 2010
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.0 linear feet
(6 boxes)
Date: 1906-1930
Abstract: Toshihei Jikihara 直(1869-1929), a Japanese immigrant, was a longtime resident of Upland, California and best known
as a poet. He came to the United States in 1903 from Okayama Prefecture and thereafter held many occupations including labor
camp operator, farmer, and inventor. He was also an avid writer and worked as editor to a coterie poetry magazine titled
Remoncho. The collection consists of his biographical sketches, correspondence, diaries, writing manuscripts, notes, and clippings
of poems. Materials are mostly in Japanese, with some in English.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through our electronic
paging system using the request button located on this page.
Creator:
Jikihara, Toshihei
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[Identification of item], Toshihei Jikihara Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA
Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Jikihara was born 1869 and a native of Okayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1903, at the age of 34, he immigrated to the United Stated
and settled in Upland, California. There, he worked as a labor camp operator, farmer, and inventor. He managed to receive
patents for some of the agricultural equipments he had invented. He also edited and published for
Remoncho, a magazine of Japanese poetry written by a group of agricultural laborers and housewives living in Southern California in
the early twentieth century. He himself was an avid writer and became later known as a hermit poet. He died in 1929.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Jikihara’s personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of writings, draft notes, business and financial
records, and clippings of poems. Materials are mostly in Japanese, with some in English.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Biographical sketches
- Personal correspondence
- Documents relating to Jikihara’s inventions
- Legal papers
- Financial records
- Scrapbook of poems
- Address book
- Diaries
- Manuscripts of essays, memoirs, poems, short stories, and haiku
- Notes and memos
- Poems by Flora E. Hill
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Jikihara, Toshihei--Archives.
Diaries.
Inventors--California, Southern--Archives.
Japanese American farmers--California--Upland--Archives.
Poets, Japanese--California, Southern--Archives.