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Finding Aid for the Setsu Kanehara Papers, ca. 1945-1964
2010
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Title: Setsu Kanehara Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1945-1964
Collection number: 2010
Creator:
Nagata, Setsuko, 1916-
Extent:
1 box
(0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Setsu Kanehara was born in 1916 in Oakland, California. She was sent to Japan and graduated from a girls' middle school in
Miyazaki Prefecture. She returned to the United States in 1936. A poet and author, she used Setsuko Nagata as her pen name.
The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and mimeographed bulletins of Haiku societies. Correspondents
include friends, family, Issei poets and writers, and poets and writers in Japan. Materials in this collection are in Japanese
and English.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
[Identification of item], Setsu Kanehara Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Kanehara was born in 1916 in Oakland, California; she was sent to Japan and graduated from a girls' middle school in Miyazaki
Prefecture; she returned to the United States in 1936; a poet and author, she used Setsuko Nagata as her pen name.
Collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and mimeographed bulletins of Haiku societies related to the life
and career of poet and author Setsu Kanehara. Correspondents include friends, family, Issei poets and writers, the Japanese
American Research Project, and poets and writers in Japan. The newspaper clippings are of reviews of Kanehara's books. The
bulletins of Haiku societies are from Minidoka, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Denver (ca. 1945-50).
Materials in this collection are in Japanese and English.
Arranged in the following series:
- Personal correspondence, 1949-64.
- Miscellany, ca. 1945-50.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nagata, Setsuko, 1916- --Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Women poets, Japanese--United States--Archival resources.
Japanese American authors--Correspondence.
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010)
. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.