| 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 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
899513 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI interview with Yasuko K. Yasuda 4/9/84 3 bank broke and the water ran all over the place. That's what I heard. I never had the experience of seeing the flood. When there's a fire, the big temple bell used to ring out "l::ong, l::ong". But during the war the temple bell was confiscated. • • everyting metal during the war • • • even at our house the swords were taken away. LK You gave to the temple before you left? YY Mter the war when we were in Orern. From our four districts, only four came to the United States. Fran Hiroshima, if you say four districts, they were hundred and thousands who came to the United States. If there were $500.00 it was enough to hly another temple bell for our village temple. Yasuda donated $100. 00, the other four, although they were rich, didn't donate much. Here we are not rich rut we gave $100.00. During that time my daughter and my granddaughter were on a mission in Japan and visited the temple and took pictures of the temple bell. At the time of donation, the priest was so happy that he, also, sent us pictures of the temple bell. IK Where did you land and what kind of medical examination did you have to go through? YY Landed in san Francisco. They just examined our eyes - no physical examination. We came in as heinrin ( ccmnon people) because we had big business here. We were considered heimin. the picture brides were "imin" ( irrrnigrants) and they were a sorry bunch. One picture bride, for instance, was looking at a photograph of a good looking man, her future husband, but after taking one look at a dark, SliD burned nan, she said she didn' t want to marry such a nan, turned around and went back to Japan on the same l::xJat. Poor thing .... this business of picture brides. I cried. Yasuda carre to this co1.mtry as a student and had his record established. These picture brides who came here without any knowledge for the first ti.ne I felt very sorry for them. What were they disappointed at? What do their husband look like? Do you ranember? |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m4qkd/899513 |
