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It's not widely known that
one of the major practices

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of the internees, particularly
in the Department of Justice

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camps, was poetry,
traditional Japanese poetry,

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and we've been very lucky
that much of this poetry

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has survived in manuscript, in
mimeograph, in calligraphy--

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and has been handed
down to descendants

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in the families who then have
offered them to collections.

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And we also are very
lucky that these poems

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have been translated
into English by community

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translators mostly.

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In Santa Fe was one of
the largest poetry groups.

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It was called The Santa Fe
Intaanee Poetry Project,

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a name they made themselves.

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Intaanee is the Japanese--

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or the Romanized-- the
Japanified word for internee.

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These names were known--

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I won't read them all to you,
but all the five of these men

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now have been identified.

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Five of them were storekeepers
from Hawaii, three from Kauai.

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A couple of them were doctors,
and one of them was a dentist.

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One was a Buddhist priest.

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This is a very amusing piece.

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Very charming, I think.

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It's a poem by a man who called
himself 無声, no voice.

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Let me see if I
can read it to you.

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Here we go.

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It's in a very nice 草書,
calligraphy and it's a tanka.

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エビのまねしても 寝付かぬ 汽車の旅

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It's a poem about
the evacuation,

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about what it was like to
ride confined on a train.

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"Though curled like a shrimp,
I do not sleep on the train."

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It actually doesn't say
"curled like a shrimp,"

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it's like with the
body of a shrimp.

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I know someone's
going to tell me

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the translation is a little off.

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But I like the other version.

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This is just like a
piece of a longer poem.

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［? 脇戸に満つる ?］
Oh, excuse me.

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This is a large
piece of calligraphy.

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This would be a big
piece you would put it

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on 床の間, on display
in your living room.

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And you could see the
stroke is very big.

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すごい, you know,  力持ち, power.

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It's 1944.

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Showa 19 and
thanks to Michael

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for verifying this for me.

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I would have called it 1943.

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It's New Year's written
by 二天, which

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is very amusing because this
is the pen name of the poet

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and painter, the name
taken by Miyamoto

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Musashi, the great samurai
of the 16th century.

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So at this point he called
himself 二天. Dry brush.

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Dry brush.

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Yeah.

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How many [? fills it up ?].

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Oh, this is a bunch of
senryu, a lot of them,

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by different poets, but all
copied down by one hand.

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And you can see it's a
manuscript or journal

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page, a loose leaf notebook.

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Senryu were the humorous haiku.

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It came up during the
18th century written

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by commoners and peasants.

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They usually were
a little bit bawdy.

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They contain modern words and
a lot of defecation jokes.

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I'll just read a few of them.

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And feel free to correct me.

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Oh, here's one.

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諦めに 慣れもと 夜具の冷たすぎ

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"Though accustomed
to my despair--

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this is very interesting.

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Despair means my wet things,
the word 慣れもと

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so it's also a little
sexual, like autoerotic.

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I don't know, but--

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"Though accustomed to my despair
the bedding remains cold."

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燦然と 光るつららの 零下五度

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"Icicle blazing five
degrees below zero."

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This is a very interesting one.

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敵国の 味方にされて
さよなら

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"Branded an enemy alien.

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Sayonara."

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Japanese is a syllabic language.

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It's not an accented
language, so it carries

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its feeling a different way.

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物足らぬ 生活費 見飽き 夜に飽き

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"Meaningless life, boredom
at day, boredom at night."

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Oh, here's their translations.

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I guess I was going to do
a giveaway, print these up,

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but I apologize.

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Technical difficulties.

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So, I like the top one.

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また会うと 別れた人に また出会い


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"Pledge to meet again, though
parted, we chance to meet now."

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And this is written
by a guy who--

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I ran into a friend in Sand
island in Honolulu Harbor.

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They got detained in
different centers,

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then they were then
sent to Santa Fe,

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and then they're there again.

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And along with the poetry, there
were these great watercolor

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paintings, so often
the poems would

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be illustrated or decorated.

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Here are some.

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senryu again, some haiku.

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[? 局部 ?], a fragment.

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万国に この香りなし 大和菊 "Not
found on Earth the center

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of a Japanese chrysanthemum."

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二度の春 留守の園に 和黄菊咲き

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"Spring came twice to
my abandoned garden.

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The yellow
chrysanthemum bloomed."

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Here's the last one.

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丹精の菊 無造作に 消耗され

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"Chrysanthemum, lovingly
tended, casually requested."

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OK.

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So more and more and more.

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These were not
bumpkins, these guys.

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They were cultivated men, let's
say, practicing peaceful arts.

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Even in-- how should I put
this-- fucking Santa Fe.

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This is a very zen, very,
very, very sort of meditative.

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仮の宿 住めば都と 振り返り

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"As I look back, the
barrack was home."

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［? かいせつ ?］の趣味のために さよなら

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"Fellow poets, goodbye"

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This is the moon over
Santa Fe detention center.

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There's a Memorial there now.

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It's quite controversial
that it was created.

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The [INAUDIBLE] battalion in
1941, stationed at Corregidor,

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mostly were killed.

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It was one of the first
battles of World War two.

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These were the ones who were
set on the Bataan Death March

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as well.

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So, when the Memorial for
the Santa Fe internees

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was proposed, there was a
large outcry from the community

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that it just could
not happen because

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of the bitterness of that.

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But a descendant of one of the
survivors of the Bataan March

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stood up and defended the notion
of memorializing the Japanese

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who were incarcerated there.

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His name is Roy Ortiz.

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He's a wonderful
man, and he's one

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of those descended from the
original inhabitants of New

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Mexico, the Espanola
inhabitants,

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and he was listened to.

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Because of him the spot near
the Sangre de Cristo mountains,

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on the edge of town of Santa
Fe, now has a monument.

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This is looking across New
Mexico, past Lordsburg,

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over the horizon.

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The story about my grandfather
is that he was just disappeared

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and wasn't heard
from for many years

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until he wound up on the
doorstep of his house

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in Laie in 1944 as
if nothing had happened.

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It was like a spaceship came and
took him and then dropped him

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back.

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So the life that returned
to after this detention

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was fishing in
Laie Point.

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First report, my father
wouldn't talk about it

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and the way I figured it out
was I went back to the community

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papers and the first
mention of Kubota

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again after he was
taken away is he

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caught a 49 pound ulua
off Laie Point.

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Kubota started fishing again.

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He caught a 49 pound ulua
on Laie Point.

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