Entrevistas

1. His family's migration to Salinas, California

2. Father created a partnership to grow and ship vegetables

3. Father's business partner operated their farming business during WWII

4. Father was convinced the constitution would protect him

5. Japanese were not welcomed back to Salinas

6. Felt no hostility in Los Gatos, California after the war

7. Able to settle easily in Los Gatos with foresight and luck

8. Requested assignment in Europe to avoid combat in the Korean War

9. Taking over his father's business after father's accident

10. Mochitsuki tradition

11. Feelings about redress

12. Mr. Hirasaki brought World Fair Japanese pavilion to Gilroy

Yuki,Tom

(n. 1935) Empresário Sansei

Mochitsuki tradition

Right after the war, people didn’t have any place to live. And so therefore we had a little community there of our relatives who lived in the barn, in the basement, in the bedroom. We had about seven families living together on the ranch right where you saw…and of course we had our own mochitsuki we started back in 1945. One of my cousins was from Japan and as a result he knew how to do it. My father followed suit. We had every moochitsuki period. We would do our own moochitsuki.

We still do it now. The spirit isn’t there anymore because the next generation, they don’t relate to the Japanese-ness of mochitsuki, they just have an open house. That’s the unfortunate thing about it. We have lost the spirit of the pounding of the rice and the sacredness of the rice and the seiro and putting the mochi to the altar and things like that. A lot of that is being lost. We still go through the motion of having the mochitsuki right now. So that’s how that is. We are stubbornly still continuing that.

comunidades mochitsuki tradições

Data: March 22, 2018

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Tom Yuki nasceu em 29 de junho de 1935 em Salinas, Califórnia. Seu pai pertencia a uma parceria agrícola antes da guerra e foi capaz de continuar o negócio enquanto estava encarcerado em Poston, Arizona, com a ajuda de seu parceiro de negócios via telefone e telegrama. Depois de voltar de Poston, a família mudou-se para Los Gatos, Califórnia e continuou os seus negócios. Tom foi para a Universidade de Santa Clara e juntou-se aos militares, sendo designado para a França como oficial de Quartel-Mestre. Ele trabalhava como administrador de contratos em uma empresa quando seu pai morreu, deixando Tom para assumir o negócio como sócio-gerente da Yuki Farms. Tom atuou como membro do conselho em muitas organizações, incluindo seu atual papel no Museu Nacional Japonês Americano.