Japanese Language Taisho reading book

Japanese Language Taisho reading book

Description

Title Proper Japanese Language Taisho reading book
Date(s) 1925
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
File consists of one example of the Japanese Language Taisho (1912-1925) reading book used at the Steveston Japanese Language School, including stories and poems.
Name of creator
Toshio Odamura was a Canadian of Japanese descent who grew up in Steveston, BC where he attended Lord Byng School. In the 1930s, he studied at the Steveston Japanese Language School, and in January 1936 he married Naraye Sakai in Haney, BC. His father, Magoichi Odamura, was a fisherman in Steveston, BC and later farmed in Haney, BC. Toshio Odamura was interned at Slocan, BC, and lived at Bay Farm, moving with his wife to Penticton, BC after the end of the war years and later to Vancouver, BC.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Japanese Language Taisho reading book
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Terminology

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