Local Histories of Japanese Americans in California at the End of the Meiji Era

[A General Survey of North America, Part 1: The Japanese and the Development of California] Hokubei tosa taikan, jokan. Kashu nihonjin hattenchi no bu

Kashiwamura, Keikoku (also transliterated as Kazusake, Ishisuke, and Ikkai)

Notes: The starting point for the history of Japanese American settlements in most towns and cities in California. Kashiwamura attempted to identify the first Japanese immigrants to a particular location and traces settlements over their first few decades. He includes biographies of prominent Japanese in each locale and describes their businesses. The book is extensively illustrated with nearly 200 black-and-white halftone photographs of settlers, their American children, notable businesses, and community organizations.

"A comprehensive survey of Japanese settlements in California written for readers in Japan. Based upon the author's personal, on-the-spot survey carried out from 1908–1910, it provides a descriptive survey of Japanese settlements and short biographical sketches of certain individuals in them."—Buried Past, 285.

Whatever Kashiwamura's plans were for subsequent volumes in this series, covering states other than California, they did not quite come to fruition. He did publish a US-Canada travelogue a few years later.

[2], 4, 2, 16, 666, 36, 15 pages, interleaved with 140 black-and-white halftone plates.

OCLC: 27986174, 672478042.

Edition + Condition: A good to very good copy in the original publisher's cloth, with dampstaining to the back cover and old tide marks in the gutter of the last 50 or so pages.

Publication: Tokyo: Ryubundo, 1911 (Meiji 44).

Item No: #308137

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