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The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America (Hardcover)
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The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America (Hardcover)
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Japanese became the largest ethnic Asian group in the United States
for most of the twentieth century and played a critical role in the
expansion of agriculture in California and elsewhere. The first
Japanese settlement occurred in 1869 when refugees fleeing the
devastation in their Aizu Domain of the 1868 Boshin Civil War
traveled to California in 1869 where they established the Wakamatsu
Tea & Silk Colony Farm. Led by German arms dealer and
entrepreneur John Henry Schnell, the Colony succeeded in its
initial attempts to produce tea and silk, but financial problems, a
severe drought, and tainted irrigation water forced the closure of
the Colony in June 1871. While the Aizu colonists were unsuccessful
in their endeavor, their departure from Japan as refugees, their
goal of settling permanently in the United States, and their
establishment of an agricultural colony was soon imitated by tens
of thousands of Japanese immigrants. The Wakamatsu Colony was
largely forgotten after its closure, but Japanese American
historians rediscovered it in the 1920s and soon recognized it as
the birthplace of Japanese America. They focused their attention on
a young female colonist, Okei Ito, who died there weeks after the
Colony shut down and whose grave rests on the property to this day.
These writers transformed Okei-san into a pure and virtuous symbol
who sacrificed her life to establish a foothold for future Japanese
pioneers in California. Today many Japanese Americans regard the
Wakamatsu Farm as their "Plymouth Rock" or Jamestown and have made
it a major pilgrimage site. The American River Conservancy (ARC)
purchased the Wakamatsu Farm property in 2010. ARC is restoring the
site's historic farm house and is working to protect the Farm's
extensive natural and cultural history.
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