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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:An Internment Odyssey: Haisho Tenten;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Immigrant experience; Nationalism – complications; Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice; Will to survive;\nGenre:Memoir;\nPoV:First-person narrative of Issei;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s;\nFacility:Sand Island [42] - Sand Island, Oahu, Hawaii; Fort McDowell [60] - Fort McDowell, California; Camp McCoy [44] - Camp McCoy, Wisconsin; Camp Forrest [47] - Tullahoma, Tennessee; Camp Livingston [55] - Alexandria, Louisiana; Fort Missoula [30] - Missoula, Montana; Santa Fe [27] - Santa Fe, New Mexico;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:An Internment Odyssey: Haisho Tenten;\nAuthor:Kumaji Furuya; Tatsumi Hayashi (translator); Gary Y. Okihiro (foreword); Brian Niiya (introduction); Sheila Chun (introduction);\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:;\nPublisher:Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i;\nPubDate:2016;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:368;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/internment-odyssey-haisho-tenten/oclc/952195734\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.worldcat.org/title/internment-odyssey-haisho-tenten/oclc/952195734\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n <i>\n An Internment Odyssey: Haisho Tenten\n </i>\n is the third book in a series published by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i and University of Hawai'i Press of a Hawai'i inmate's account of their incarceration experience during World War II. It represents a critical addition to Japanese American history as it provides the perspective of an\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n from Hawai'i who authorities incarcerated at multiple sites in the Islands and the mainland. The author,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Kumaji_Furuya\" title=\"Kumaji Furuya\">\n Kumaji Furuya\n </a>\n , thus gives voice to some of the experiences faced by the 1,320 inmates from Hawai'i who like Furuya were often separated from their families for the duration of the war.\n </p>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Background_of_Furuya\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Background_of_Furuya\">\n Background of Furuya\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Kumaji Furuya was born on February 22, 1889, in Kawaguchi village in Yamanashi prefecture, the second son of Iwakichi and Nobu Furuya. He graduated from elementary school and immigrated to Hawai'i when he was eighteen years old. After working on the plantations and in stores for five years, he managed furniture stores and held various positions as a leader within the immigrant Japanese business community. He was the president of the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, head of the Honolulu Japanese Merchants' Association, and later was the vice president of the Honolulu United Japanese Society. The latter was the largest Japanese organization in the Islands that collaborated with business and fraternal groups with ties to Hawai'i's Japanese and Japan.\n </p>\n <p>\n Despite his business success, Furuya was often more interested in cultural pursuits and enjoyed drawing, dabbled in acting, often played\n <i>\n Go\n </i>\n (Japanese chess), and loved writing\n <i>\n haiku\n </i>\n . Furuya submitted haiku to Japanese language periodicals, particularly the\n <i>\n Hawai'i Shimpō\n </i>\n writing under his pen name, Suikei (Green Valley). He also helped to create a new group called the South Club along with Editor Kyoshu Aoki and Chumu Mita. By 1926, South Club poets and other clubs of freestyle haiku influenced by poet Ogiwara Seisensui created the Hawai'i Haiku Club that had over twenty members who regularly published in a poetry journal from Japan called Sōun (layered clouds). Due to Furuya's importance within the business community and his participation in cultural activities in Hawai'i, authorities deemed Furuya suspect. When war broke out, they immediately arrested him on the afternoon of\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/December_7,_1941\" title=\"December 7, 1941\">\n December 7, 1941\n </a>\n along with other Japanese community leaders.\n <i>\n Haisho Tenten\n </i>\n , roughly translated as \"transiting imprisonment,\" is Furuya's account of his incarceration experience during the war.\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Overview_and_Significance\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Overview_and_Significance\">\n Overview and Significance\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Furuya published\n <i>\n An Internment Odyssey\n </i>\n in Japanese more than fifty years ago and in 2017, it was translated into English and released after the publication of Yasutaro Soga's\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei (book)/\" title=\"Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei (book)\">\n Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei\n </a>\n and Otokichi Muin Ozaki's\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin Ozaki Family (book)/\" title=\"Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin Ozaki Family (book)\">\n Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin Ozaki Family\n </a>\n . The translator, Tatsumi Hayashi, was a prominent Japanese businessman stationed in Honolulu who in his retirement began volunteering at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i along with his friend Kihei Hirai. Although both did not know much about the incarceration story in Hawai'i, Hirai would translate Soga's book, which was published in 2008. Hayashi, who first worked on translating Otokichi Ozaki's radio scripts of his World War II experiences, worked on translating\n <i>\n An Internment Odyssey\n </i>\n , that was eventually published in 2016, more than ten years after he began the project.\n </p>\n <p>\n Furuya's book is comprised of thirteen chapters that detail his arrest following the Pearl Harbor attack and his detention first at Sand Island and then to multiple mainland incarceration centers. The sub-chapters originally appeared as a series of 196 articles Furuya wrote for the\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nippu_Jiji_(newspaper)\" title=\"Nippu Jiji (newspaper)\">\n Hawaii Times\n </a>\n </i>\n , a Japanese language newspaper, from September 29, 1961 to September 23, 1963. The last three chapters of the book—\"Haiku From Santa Fe,\" \"The Rest of Our Group Remains,\" and \"The Family Camp\"—were not part of the original series and were likely written specifically for the book. Furuya writes about his surprise at being arrested and despair at being separated from his family as authorities detained him at multiple locations: the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Honolulu_Immigration_Station_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Honolulu Immigration Station (detention facility)\">\n Honolulu Immigration Station\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Sand_Island_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Sand Island (detention facility)\">\n Sand Island\n </a>\n on O'ahu;\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Fort_McDowell_/_Angel_Island_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Fort McDowell / Angel Island (detention facility)\">\n Fort McDowell/Angel Island\n </a>\n in California;\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Camp_McCoy_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Camp McCoy (detention facility)\">\n Camp McCoy\n </a>\n in Wisconsin;\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Camp_Forrest_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Camp Forrest (detention facility)\">\n Camp Forrest\n </a>\n in Tennessee,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Camp_Livingston_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Camp Livingston (detention facility)\">\n Camp Livingston\n </a>\n in Louisiana;\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Fort_Missoula_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Fort Missoula (detention facility)\">\n Fort Missoula\n </a>\n in Montana; and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Santa Fe (detention facility)\">\n Santa Fe\n </a>\n in New Mexico.\n </p>\n <p>\n In his narrative, Furuya painstakingly records the inmates' daily activities, offering some of the first accounts of Camp Livingston and Camp Forrest as his life become an unpredictable journey from one incarceration center to the next. He documents the personalities and experiences of his fellow inmates as they struggle to adjust to these unprecedented circumstances. He identifies not only Hawai'i inmates, but those from the mainland, South America, and even prisoners of war like Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki who was a Japanese naval officer who became the first Japanese prisoner of war. The extensive roll call of names that also included the names of guards and camp commanders reflect Furuya's efforts to document and possibly understand his experiences. His account helps to contextualize and humanize camp experiences as these inmates struggled to maintain normalcy, structure, and meaning to their lives behind barbed wire while facing an unpredictable future. Hawai'i's inmates faced particularly tenuous circumstances as they were often separated from their families who struggled to support themselves in the Islands. Furuya documents how many wrestled with the agonizing decision to ask their families to join them in the camps or to repatriate to Japan to allow families to be reunited.\n </p>\n <p>\n Furuya's account, that is in part based on material that his barracks mates provided, is interspersed with haiku that Furuya wrote throughout his incarceration experience that provide depth and insight to Furuya's own emotional state at that time.\n <i>\n An Internment Odyssey\n </i>\n is thus Furuya's documentation and reflection of camp life to understand as well as memorialize for future generations an unprecedented chapter in American history. Furuya's book represents one of the few Issei accounts from Hawai'i that can now be understood by a larger audience. It contributes to the overall knowledge of the incarceration experience through the perspective of a first-generation Hawai'i resident.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Kelli_Y._Nakamura\" title=\"Kelli Y. Nakamura\">\n Kelli Y. Nakamura\n </a>\n , University of Hawai'i\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Nakamura, Kelli\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei (book)/\" title=\"Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei (book)\">\n Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei\n </a>\n </i>\n by Yasutaro Soga;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 (book)/\" title=\"Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 (book)\">\n Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945\n </a>\n </i>\n by Yamato Ichihashi;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir (book)/\" title=\"Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir (book)\">\n Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir\n </a>\n </i>\n by Noboru Shirai\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n",
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