Seattle Resident's Internment Memories and Other Essays

[A Cat's Yawn] Neko no akubi: Zuihitsu

Matsushita, Iwao

Notes: "A collection of miscellaneous essays which first appeared in the Hokubei Hochi [Seattle North American Post] from 1949–1954. Authored by a former Japanese language instructor at the University of Washington, they cover the wartime internment experience, American history and institutions, and other topics."—A Buried Past, 676.

Matsushita (1892–1979), a Methodist, arrived in Seattle in 1919 as an employee of Matsui & Co and stayed for more than 50 years. He began teaching Japanese at the University of Washington in 1927. He was also active in the Seattle Camera Club, a leading Japanese American photography group in the 20th century.

4, 8, 283 pages, 1 leaf of plates.

OCLC: 24940569

Edition + Condition: First edition. A near fine copy in wrappers in a decorative dust jacket. The publisher's second, clear plastic, jacket is chipped and torn.

Publication: Tokyo: Hitotsubashi Shobo, 1955 (Showa 30).

Item No: #361061

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