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Nichibei Foundation Japan Study Club Dinner & Lecture on the Wakamatsu Tea & Silk Colony

Conference/Presentation
In Person
Terasaki Foundation Laboratory Building
11570 Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Date: Jan. 19, 2010

Time: 6:30 p.m.


Nibei Foundation
Japan Study Club Dinner/Lecture series:
 
"The true story of the last samurai who were the first to colonize America"
Mr. Brian T. Maeda, Film Director of "Samurai of Gold Hill"

Brian Tadashi Maeda, film director, will be speaking about his current film project: "Samurai of Gold Hill"
 
It is the fascinating sage of the "Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony," first Japanese colony to establish itself in California. 
 
The last samurai group of Aizu-Wakamatsu during the Bakumatsu (the End of Tokugawa Shogunate) period, escaped from Japan with a lead of a German to settling in Gold Hill, California.
 
The year was 1869, the second year of the Meiji when they finally arrived at California. 
 
Reception and dinner at 6:30 pm
Followed by presentation at 7:30 pm
 
Admission including dinner: $10 per person
 
Make RSVP by January 16 (Saturday) by register online www.nibei.org, email japanstudies@nibei.org, or call (310) 479-6101 ext 134


Issei lectures Samurai of Gold Hill (film) Wakamatsu Colony

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