| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita |
| Alternative Title |
Grace Oshita: interviews on February 20, 21 and 26, 1985, and May 22 and 30, 1985 |
| Creator |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-02-20; 1985-02-21; 1985-02-26; 1985-05-22; 1985-05-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5391959/ ; Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ |
| Subject |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 174 pages) of a series of interviews with Grace Oshita, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1985. Mrs. Oshita (b. 1925) speaks of her early life in San Francisco, her father's business ventures, and the Japanese relocations of World War II. Her family was interned at the Topaz, Utah, relocation center |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Is Part of |
Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897992 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Title |
Page 44 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897866 |
| OCR Text |
Show Grace Oshita 2-21-85 s2:11 GO Oh, the commonly used food woua ne like canned bamboo shoots. L Soy sauce. He also had exclusive distributorship of Hawaiian manufactured saki. What else. And then as he went around, well, as salesmen went around to sell mise, there was a large group of Phillipinos, laborers, and they would want certain salted fish. And so, he would handle those things. GO A pungent thing (laughs) L Didyou taste it. Some of it. That salted fish. Did you try it. GO Well;he JflRO~e~Smething similar to that. Yes. L So he would import it for the Phillipino workers. Salted fish. GO Yes. And other things. I ca't remember what else. There were other items. Small gorceries might be ordered along with the miso. L Did he sell rice. GO Yes, he sold rice. The ingredients came from diffierent places. Like I said, the rice is ordered from Sacramento area. And the soy beans - he used to always talk about buying it from Virginia. Norfolk, Virginia. Warehouse or a mill. In Norfolk. In Salt Lake City, let's see whete did we order it. Texas. L Soy beans? GO Arkansas. Pehaps it was Arkansas. But the rice was always from California. L Caned bamboo shoots, soy sauce, Hawaiin saki, salted fish, rice, soy beans. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897866 |
