| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Yasuko K. Yasuda |
| Alternative Title |
Yasuko K. Yasuda: interviews on April 2, 9, 16 and 30, 1984 |
| Creator |
Yasuda, Yasuko K., 1894-1990 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-04-02; 1984-04-09; 1984-04-16; 1984-04-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Orem, Utah County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779334/ ; Eureka, Juab County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5538969/ ; Japan, http://sws.geonames.org/1861060/ |
| Subject |
Yasuda, Yasuko K., 1894-1990--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American women--Utah--Interviews; Arranged marriages |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 31 pages) of four interviews with Yasuko K. Yasuda, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Mrs. Yasuda (b. 1894) recalls her childhood in Japan, her arranged marriage and subsequent move to Idaho with her husband. She also talks about the experiences of "picture brides" met on the boat from Japan and Japanese migrant workers, as well as raising her family on farms in Eureka and Orem, Utah. Included are Mrs. Yasuda's memories of living peacefully in Orem during World War II |
| 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/s66m4qkd |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American women; Arranged marriage |
| 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 |
899543 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m4qkd |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
899511 |
| OCR Text |
Show oral History Institute interview with Yasuko K. Yasuda 4/9/84 1 U< What did you do after you got married? IT In Japan, especially in the country, it is custrnary that the new bride becane the member_ of the family, and as a S}'l'Tll:ol my mother and I are obligated to visit all the relatives. Since childhood I had a problem with my windpipe so making rotmds to all the relatives aggravated my throat and I had a very bad sore throat. My rrot.her said if I stayed hane and made visitations I will becane sick so we left for Yokohama. I and my husband stayed a month in Yokohama inn. That's the picture I had taken with the suit I had made. In Yokohama, all the Japanese wear kimonos. Here we are walking down the street in our suits, so I was called "ainoko" (a child of mixed marriage). Only the caucasians wore western style clothes. I..K Why were you in Yokohama so long? YY If I stayed hane .I would have to make visits to all the relatives and my folks were afraid I would get sick so we relaxed in Yokohama a whole month until it was time to roard a ship. Even at the price of lodging it was ootter than getting sick so it was arranged that way. LK Did you and your husband ever talk over plans, what you would do in this cotmtry, during that time? How long you were going to stay and things like that? YY Not really. :Before we were married, I said Yasuda went to America to do research in kagaku (science), I meant medical. He came to 00cane a medical doctor, but he got ill and doctor adviced him to stop studying for it was hannful to his health. So he ~ a farner. LK Did you have any definite time plans as to how long you would stay? YY WE cane with the idea of staying ten years. It l:ecame too long. I will not return to Japan. The children after graduating school will all leave hare. So there's no one to leave the fann to. I can't lease the fann l::ecause we have too rrany animals. We have cows and horses. By the time the children were out of school, it was mechanized. We have two miJXing machines, mechanized. We have pigs, cows, chicken, 500 to 700. Every day we gdthered two or three crates of eggs. We |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m4qkd/899511 |
