Yamato Colony

The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida

Ryusuke Kawai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6810-7 (ISBN)

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Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how a Japanese farming settlement came to be in south Florida, far from other Japanese communities in the United States.Kawai's captivating story takes readers back to the early twentieth century, a time when Japanese citizens were beginning to look to possibilities for individual wealth and success overseas. Poor, unlucky in love, and dreaming of returning rich to marry his sweetheart, a young man named Sukeji Morikami boarded a passenger steamer at the port of Yokohama and set off to make his fortune.Morikami was drawn by promises from his compatriot Jo Sakai, founder of an agricultural community called Yamato between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. Sakai advertised great prospects raising pineapples amid the state's economic boom and exciting developments like Flagler's East Coast Railway. This book follows the experiences of Morikami and his fellow Yamato settlers through World War II, when the struggling colony closed for good. Morikami held on to his hopes for Yamato until the end, when at last, the lone survivor, he donated the land that would become the widely visited Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.Celebrating the lives of ordinary men and women who left their homes and traveled an enormous distance to settle and raise their families in Florida, this book brings to light a unique moment in the state's history that few people know about today.

Ryusuke Kawai is a journalist based in Japan. He is the author of several books and translator of a Japanese-language edition of John Okada's No-No Boy. John Gregersen is former senior curator and cultural director at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida.

Prologue: Yamato Road
1. Going to America with a Broken Heart
2. Plans for Japanese Immigration and the Development of Florida
3. The Founding of Florida's Yamato Colony
4. The Japanese of Florida
5. A Fresh Start
6. The Florida Real Estate Boom and Its Collapse
7. The Demise of the Colony
8. Homesick
9. A Desire to Leave His Name on the Land
10. Planting Trees at the Age of Eighty
Epilogue: Ukyō Ward, Kyōto
Postscript
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.02.2020
Übersetzer	John Gregersen, Reiko Nishioka
Zusatzinfo	20 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8130-6810-X / 081306810X
ISBN-13	978-0-8130-6810-7 / 9780813068107
Zustand	Neuware