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Finding Aid for the Kumez Hachimonji Papers, 1918-1955
2010
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Title: Kumezō Hachimonji Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1918-1955
Collection number: 2010
Creator:
Hachimonji, Kumezō
Extent: 1 box(0.5 linear ft.) and 1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Kumezō Hachimonji was born in 1888. A native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin in Sendai and arrived in
the United States in 1918. He received his BS from Columbia University. Before World War II he owned and operated Valley Seed
Company in El Monte, California. He was also known as K. Hatchmonji. The collection consists of diaries, essays, memoirs,
correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and photographic negatives related to the life of agricultural
specialist and merchant Kumezō Hachimonji. Materials in the collection are in English and Japanese.
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], Kumezō Hachimonji Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Hachimonji was born in 1888; a native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin in Sendai and arrived in the United
States in 1918; BS, Columbia University; owned and operated Valley Seed Company in El Monte, California, before World War
II; he was also known as K. Hatchmonji; died in 1956.
Collection consists of diaries, essays, memoirs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and photographic
negatives related to the life of agricultural specialist and merchant Kumezō Hachimonji. Correspondence is made up of typewritten
excerpts from internment camp letters exchanged between the Hachimonjis and their friends. Hachimonji's memoirs are contained
in a volume which spans the dates 1934-39. The essays in the collection, put together around 1955, cover a variety of topics,
including the Arab-Israeli conflict, farming, wartime evacuation, Japanese-Chinese relations, racism, and immigration. A scrapbook
contains articles by Hachimonji on agriculture which appeared in a Japanese language newspaper, 1939-40.
Materials in the collection are in English and Japanese.
Arranged in the following series:
- Memoirs and essays.
- Diaries, 1941 and 1945-46.
- Four scrapbooks.
- Two photographic negatives of Hachimonji's wedding.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hachimonji, Kumezō--Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Merchants--California--El Monte--Archival resources.
Japanese Americans--United States--Archival resources.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Archival resources.
Scrapbooks.
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010)
. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.