From Okinawa to the Americas: Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies)
By Hana Yamagawa.
Description
Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years’ time a wealthy young woman. Edited by her daughter Akiko, Hana’s richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a century, from Hana’s early life in a small village not long after the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to J...
ISBN(s)
0824835514, 9780824835514
