First Edition. Part history, part literary anthology, this large volume by an Issei historian devotes chapters to the Japanese exclusion laws, the history of Japanese American farming, particularly in California, and Japanese language schools. The bulk of the book is an anthology of Japanese American poetry (in Japanese) and first-person.....

First Edition. Perhaps the first book for children written by a Japanese-American writer, a collection of adaptations of Japanese legends and fairytales. Illustrated after line drawings by S. Mizuno. Nakazawa obtained a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Oregon, and he was the first professor of Japanese descent.....

First Edition. The first and only yearbook/almanac issued by the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly (Nichibei Shuho, later Nichibei Jiho). While similar in format to the yearbooks and directories published at the time on the West Coast, this book is much more focused on the import-export businesses that were located on the.....

An extensive accumulation of materials documenting the Japanese-American land investment company, New York Acreage Estates (and related companies), founded by Japanese immigrant Okamoto Yonezo (1881–1967). The collection, dating primarily from ca. 1912 to 1928, includes nearly 100 separate pieces, including books, pamphlets, maps, prospectuses, inscription documents, reports, and several letters.....

First Edition. A privately printed version of the diary kept by Otani Kahyoe, the president of the Japan Central Tea Traders' Association. "Mr. Otani visited America and Europe in 1899–1900, when he represented both the Tokyo and Yokohama Chambers of Commerce at the Philadelphia Commercial Convention" (William Harrison Ukers, All.....

First Edition. An illustrated collection of comical adventures in the United States written and drawn by one of the key figures in the development of modern-day manga, Shishido Sako. Shishido's Supido Taro is widely cited as the first manga to incorporate storytelling techniques from American films, and it was one.....

First Edition. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905–1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios;.....

First Edition. A little known Meiji-era novel narrated by a young Japanese immigrant in the United States. The narrator seems to have come from the class of poor young people with knowledge of the modern world but little chance of advancement in tradition-bound Japan. He offers opinions and philosophical musings.....

R. J. Waters operated a photography studio at 110 Sutter Street in San Francisco (listed in the 1900 San Francisco Crocker-Langley Directory). He offered small-format photographs, captioned in the margins, of San Francisco and Bay Area scenes designed for use in scrapbooks. This group includes: 267. Chinese Grocery; 274. Club.....