A Report on Japanese American Communities in 1913

[Surveying North America] Jicchi tosa hokubei

Kashiwamura, Ichinosuke (also Keikoku, Katsura, and Ichisuke)

Notes: The author, a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun, was sent to the U.S. for nearly three years, from 1910 to 1913. This book offers a detailed look at Japanese American communities, with separate sections on Northern and Southern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Michigan, and New York. Kashiwamura's personal observations are bolstered by informants from the areas in question. He also discusses the anti-immigrant sentiment that was growing in the United States.

The introduction, by Saburo Shimada, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, is much more political, criticizing the anti-Japanese feeling in the US and blaming it on (white) Americans feeling intimidated by Japanese immigrants.

This book is likely the sequel to Hokubei tosa taikan (A Buried Past, 285), which was a report based on travels in 1908 to 1910. That book is by Kazusake Kashiwamura (probably the same author using a variant nom-de-plume; the National Diet Library catalogs both names under the same master record). The entry for A Buried Past no. 285 identifies it as "v. 1" without noting the second volume. This volume not in A Buried Past

3, 2, 13, [12 (halftone plates], 445 pages.

OCLC: 53536252 (USC only)

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's blue cloth.

Publication: Tokyo: Naigai Shuppan Kyokai, 1913 (Taisho 2).

Item No: #361086

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