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Title: Hoshimiya Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1910-1968
Collection number: 2010
Creator:
Hoshimiya Family
Extent:
14 boxes
(7 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Tosuke Hoshimiya was born in 1886. A native of Miyagi prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin and arrived in the United
States in 1906. He served as principal for various Japanese language schools in the Los Angeles area (Brawley, Moneta, Torrance,
El Segundo, and Los Angeles) until December 1941. He was incarcerated in internment camps at Fort Missoula, Montana, and Lordsburg,
New Mexico, until he later joined his family at the Granada Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado. He served as a Japanese
language instructor for the Military language program at the University of Michigan, 1945-46. He married Sadayo Hoshimiya
(née Nagai) in 1915. She was also a native of Miyagi Prefecture, and she attended Utsunomiya Women's School in Japan and arrived
in the United States in 1914. She was a Japanese language school teacher, and she and Tosuke had three children. The collection
consists of correspondence, business records, publications, Japanese language instructional materials for children and adult
education classes, and other documents about the Hoshimiya family. There are English and Japanese materials in the collection.
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.
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.
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.
[Identification of item], Hoshimiya Family Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233210
Tosuke Hoshimiya was born in 1886; a native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin and arrived in the United
States in 1906; served as principal for various Japanese language schools in the Los Angeles area until December 1941; incarcerated
in internment camps at Fort Missoula, Montana, and Lordsburg, New Mexico, until he later joined his family at the Granada
Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado; he served as a Japanese language instructor for the Military language program, University
of Michigan, 1945-46; he married Sadayo Hoshimiya (née Nagai) in 1915; she was also a native of Miyagi Prefecture; she attended
Utsunomiya Women's School in Japan and arrived in the United States in 1914; she was a Japanese language school teacher, and
she and Tosuke had three children.
Collection consists of correspondence, business records, publications, Japanese language instructional materials for children
and adult education classes, and other documents about the Hoshimiya family. The collection primarily relates to Tosuke Hoshimiya
and his wife, Sadayo. Correspondence includes letters to various people interned in the United States during World War II.
Also includes church bulletins and religious publications from various Japanese churches in the United States.
Materials in the collection are in English and Japanese.
Arranged in the following series:
- Personal correspondence of the Hoshimiyas, 1931-68 (Boxes 63-68).
- Materials relating to Sadayo Hoshimiya's funeral, biographical materials of Tosuke Hoshimiya, and documents on the Thoku Gakuin, Sendai, and Riverside scholarship program (Box 69).
- Business and non-personal correspondence, records on the Hoshimiya property during the war, and their evacuation property loss claims (Box 70).
- Tax records (Box 71).
- Japanese language instructional materials compiled by Tosuke Hoshimiya (Boxes 72-74).
- Hoshimiya's naturalization records and documents relating to the Japanese Hospital of Los Angeles and the Pasadena Japanese Community Center (Box 74).
- Church bulletins and religious publications (Boxes 75-76).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hoshimiya family--Archives.
Hoshimiya, Tosuke--Archives.
Hoshimiya, Sadayo--Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Japanese American families--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Archival resources.
Language teachers--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Schools, Japanese--California--Los Angeles.
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010)
. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.