Ikeda Family collection

Ikeda Family collection

Description

Title Proper Ikeda Family collection
Date(s) 1918–2010
General material designation
This fonds has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
The collection consists of two series; the first is of family photographs of Chuhei and Masuye Ikeda and the second series is a collection of two audio recordings by Terry Miyamoto (nee Ikeda) and her sister Jean Kajiwara (nee Ikeda) recounting the Ikeda family history.
Name of creator
Ikeda Family : Chuhei Ikeda was born in Fukuoka Japan in 1888. He left life on the farm with four brothers and two sisters to work on a Railway labour contract. He contracted Typhoid fever and after a long recovery found he could no longer return to hard labour. While getting a haircut one day, he was asked if he would help the old barber out in his shop. He became quite adept at his new skill and changed his career. On a trip back to Japan, he was encouraged to marry so his family arranged a good match with Masuye Miyama, a young school girl from a farming family in the same village. As soon as she graduated in 1918, they were married and left for Canada. Chuhei was the second son of the family so was never to inherit the family farm.
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

Metadata

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Ikeda Family collection
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Terminology

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