Item No: #308126 [An Internment Odyssey] Haisho tenten. Suikei Furuya, pen name of Kumaji Furuya.
[An Internment Odyssey] Haisho tenten

Uncommon Internment Memoir

[An Internment Odyssey] Haisho tenten

Notes: The first edition of a Japanese American memoir, only recently published in English translation as An Internment Odyssey.

Furuya, a native of Japan, emigrated to Hawaii in 1907 where he opened a successful furniture store. He also organized the Japanese language programming on a Hawaiian radio station and perhaps for that reason he was perceived as a security risk and arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was sent to the mainland where he was imprisoned on Angel Island, in California, and then in five different internment camps in as many states: Camp McCoy (Wisconsin), Camp Livingston (Louisiana), Camp Forrest (Tennessee), and the Santa Fe Internment Camp (New Mexico).

The University of Hawaii Press published an English translation in 2016. This first edition in Japanese is uncommon, with just ten holdings in OCLC.

460 pages plus [24] pages of black-and-white plates.

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A bit musty. With what may be an original unprinted plastic jacket over paper one.

Publication: Honolulu: Hawai Taimususha, 1964.

Item No: #308126

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