Free Ebook Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii 1885-1941
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Published on: 1995-02-01
Released on: 1995-02-01
Original language: English
Between 1886 and 1924 thousands of Japanese journeyed to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. First the men came, followed by brides, known only from their pictures, for marriages arranged by brokers. This book tells the story of two generations of plantation workers as revealed by the clothing they brought with them and the adaptations they made to it to accommodate the harsh conditions of plantation labor. Barbara Kawakami has created a vivid picture highlighted by little-known facts gleaned from extensive interviews, from study of preserved pieces of clothing and how they were constructed, and from the literature. She shows that as the cloth preferred by the immigrants shifted from kasuri (tie-dyed fabric from Japan) to palaka (heavy cotton cloth woven in a white plaid pattern on a dark blue background) so too their outlooks shifted from those of foreigners to those of Japanese Americans. Japanese in Hawaii - Wikipedia The Japanese in Hawaii simply Japanese or Local Japanese rarely Kepan are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in 1920 they ...
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