Manuscripts

Extended family

Description: Extended Kawakami, Sakai, and Kozawa families; bulk is of Saichi and Chizu Kawakami, their children and grandchildren, especially Kawakami family weddings. Some portraits represent early years in California as well as family in Japan (box 36, 38), and Sakai family funerals, 1920s.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1890-2000
Call number: mssSK
Provenance: Gift of Kozawa Family Trust, February 2020.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 48: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Immediate family

Manuscripts

Portraits of Asakichi and Ura Kawakami, Yuki Sakai and children, Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa, Frank Ukio Kozawa, and Susie Kozawa. Includes baby portraits of Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa and of her in Japan, 1941 (box 35, folder 1) and numerous Susie Kozawa school portraits. Also present are formal photos of the funerals of Ura Kawakami at Manzanar, 1942 (box 38) and of Dan Sakai (box 42); a group portrait of Yuki Sakai and her children, 1930s (box 42); and portraits of Sumi and Miyoko Sakai in kimonos, 1930s (box 43).

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Family papers

Manuscripts

Bulk is material for family members Yuki Sakai, Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa, Frank Ukio Kozawa, Susie Kozawa, and Etsuko Rose Sakai. Includes correspondence, notebooks and school material, publications, ephemera, and artifacts. Filing names reflect most common usages and variations.

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Snapshots

Manuscripts

Snapshots depict Sakai, Kozawa, and Kawakami family homes, excursions and travels, holidays and events, friends, and pets. Many of Etsuko Rose Sakai's photos depict Galetta Van Valkenburgh and family, and her Pasadena property where Etsuko also lived. A number of photos document early years in California as well as family in Japan, primarily in box 29. Also in box 29 is a snapshot of the Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, after 1959 (folder 6).

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Sakai and Kozawa families papers

Manuscripts

The collection documents multiple generations of the Sakai, Kozawa, Kawakami, and related families primarily in the Los Angeles area from approximately 1890 to 2017 and the family business, Tokio Florist. Family papers contain correspondence, notebooks, property and other records, publications, ephemera, and artifacts. Also present are business records, architectural drawings, and other material related to Tokio Florist, especially at its Hyperion Avenue location, and other family floral business locations in Los Angeles. The collection contains extensive photographic material, including photo albums, snapshots, formal studio portraits, and panoramic photographs. Some correspondence, publications, and photographs document various family members' experiences while incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Family papers and photographs also pertain to extended family in and visits to Japan.

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Panoramic and oversize photographs

Manuscripts

Consists of panoramic photographs of Manzanar depicting buildings and people, Tennis Club? (box 52, folder 3 and oversize folder 4); family funerals of Hisae Kawakami, 1938, and Akira Dan Sakai, 1941 (oversize folder 3); and group school photos including Marshall High School class of 1936 (oversize folder 4), and a school in San Fernando, 1930 (oversize folder 2). Oversize color photographs are of flora, most likely the Tokio Florist Hyperion Avenue property, 1990s (box 51, folder 5).

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Letters to unidentified Sakai Kozawa family members.

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Extended family

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