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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Kumezo Hachimonji papers
Creator:
Hachimonji, Kumezo
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2010.10
Physical Description:
1 oversize_boxes
Date (inclusive): 1918-1955
Abstract: Kumezo Hachimonji was born in 1888. A native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin in Sendai and arrived in
the United States in 1918. He received his BS from Columbia University. Before World War II he owned and operated Valley Seed
Company in El Monte, California. He was also known as K. Hatchmonji. The collection consists of diaries, essays, memoirs,
correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and photographic negatives related to the life of agricultural
specialist and merchant Kumezo Hachimonji. Materials in the collection are in English and Japanese.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and Japanese.
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[Identification of item], Kumezo Hachimonji 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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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942331033606533
Hachimonji was born in 1888; a native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin in Sendai and arrived in the United
States in 1918; BS, Columbia University; owned and operated Valley Seed Company in El Monte, California, before World War
II; he was also known as K. Hatchmonji; died in 1956.
Collection consists of diaries, essays, memoirs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and photographic
negatives related to the life of agricultural specialist and merchant Kumezo Hachimonji. Correspondence is made up of typewritten
excerpts from internment camp letters exchanged between the Hachimonjis and their friends. Hachimonji's memoirs are contained
in a volume which spans the dates 1934-39. The essays in the collection, put together around 1955, cover a variety of topics,
including the Arab-Israeli conflict, farming, wartime evacuation, Japanese-Chinese relations, racism, and immigration. A scrapbook
contains articles by Hachimonji on agriculture which appeared in a Japanese language newspaper, 1939-40.
Materials in the collection are in English and Japanese.
Arranged in the following series:
- Memoirs and essays.
- Diaries, 1941 and 1945-46.
- Four scrapbooks.
- Two photographic negatives of Hachimonji's wedding.
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010) . Available at UCLA Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese Americans -- United States -- Archives.
Merchants -- California -- El Monte -- Archives.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Scrapbooks.
Hachimonji, Kumezo, 1888-1956--Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)