Diaries

Diaries

Description

Title Proper Diaries
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1928–1978
General material designation
This series has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
Series consists of information reflecting Haruko Kobayakawa's personal thoughts on such issues as current events. Included in her journals are included short stories, poetry, essays, schedules, income statements, samples of clothes patterns, and lists of names.
Item #22 consists of Haruko's account of going back to Japan just before the outbreak of Japan's war against the US, and not being able to come back to Canada, where her husband was, because of the war.
Name of creator
Mrs. Haruko Ivy Kobayakawa (nee Yokota) was born at Takeni-mura Hiroshima, Japan, March 20, 1902. In 1921, Haruko traveled to Canada to marry Masao Kobayakawa who was born in Cumberland BC March 10, 1898. The couple resided at Courtenay, BC on a farm that Masao owned.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum
Fonds Haruko Kobayakawa fonds

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Diaries
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Terminology

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