Ayumi : a Japanese American anthology = [Ayumi : Nikkei Beijin bungei shū].

Ayumi, a 1980 bilingual (English and Japanese) collection of short stories, memoirs, poems, and visual art by Issei, Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei includes a number of pieces focused on wartime imprisonment and postwar resettlement.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Japanese American Anthology Committee (U.S.)
Contributors: Mirikitani, Janice, (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: San Francisco, CA : Japanese American Anthology Committee, ©1980.
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Table of Contents:
  • Autobiography (an excerpt) /
  • Ryoichi Fujii
  • Season of patriation : diary of a renunciant /
  • Akira Fujita
  • Translations : Angel Island Detention Station /
  • Kiyohi Hama
  • Ginza memories /
  • Yuriko Hoshiga
  • America after twenty-five years /
  • Ayako Ishigaki
  • Anger /
  • Harue Kato
  • Golden poplar /
  • Toyo Kazato
  • Tanka /
  • Kisaburo Konoshima
  • The red carp /
  • Tamaki Matsuno
  • The grey cemetery /
  • Mitsuo Mitogawa
  • The old man on crutches /
  • Setsuko Nagata
  • Autobiography /
  • Shingo Nakamura
  • Light of the soul /
  • Fumiko Ogawa
  • Am I a traitor? /
  • Shigeki Oka
  • The earth of Salinas (n excerpt) /
  • Ginko Okazaki
  • Desert Indian (Hopi tribe) /
  • Kazuichi Oki
  • The biography of Shige Kiino (an excerpt) /
  • Katsuma Sakai
  • A letter /
  • Sasabune Sasaki
  • Poems from east of the Rockies /
  • Y.J. Suzuki
  • Twilight /
  • Yuriko Takahashi
  • Japanese Nisei getting strong /
  • Daisho Tana
  • Distorted sun /
  • Akira Togawa
  • Life poems /
  • Yoshihiko Tomari
  • Senryu and Tanka /
  • Keiho Yamanaka & Constance Hayashi, translators
  • Sakubei-San's funeral /
  • Machiko Yamanaka
  • The song of an old man /
  • Issin Hitomi Yamasaki
  • A pilgrimage to Tule Lake /
  • Yoshio Yao
  • Horizon is calling (an excerpt) /
  • Taro Yashima
  • Some lines for a younger brother /
  • Sue Kunitomi Embrey
  • Aftermath /
  • Takako Endo
  • Hot August morning (song) /
  • Peter Y. Horikoshi
  • A mid-summer incident /
  • Fred S. Kai
  • Haircut ;
  • Tō foo ;
  • A meeting at Tulelake ;
  • Why I'm not going to Asilomar ;
  • The eyes /
  • Hiroshi Kashiwagi
  • Haru /
  • Taro Katayama
  • An old woman ;
  • The paper ;
  • The mother ;
  • The father ;
  • Time for lightning ;
  • The shears /
  • Iwao Kawakami
  • Nisei : second generation Japanese American ;
  • Destination : Tule Lake relocation center, May 20, 1942 /
  • James Masao Mitsui
  • Homecoming /
  • Toshio Mori
  • The referee /
  • Kon Oshima
  • The legacy of a cemetery /
  • Joe Oyama
  • Autumn soldier ;
  • Messenger ;
  • Spoilage /
  • Yasuo Sasaki
  • Shelter ;
  • Spectacular ;
  • Anne Frank ;
  • For my son /
  • Toyo Suyemoto
  • Harmony at the fair grounds ;
  • In the outhouse ;
  • To the lady ;
  • Thirty years under /
  • Mitsuye Yamada
  • The legend of Miss Sasagawara /
  • Hisaye Yamamoto
  • In heaven and earth /
  • Wakako Yamauchi
  • Untitled /
  • Lori Reiko Higa
  • The Hongo store 29 miles volcano, Hilo, Hawaii ;
  • Roots /
  • Garrett K. Hongo
  • Something about me today (song) /
  • Chris K Iijima & Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto
  • Tribute to Toshio ;
  • My father and myself facing the sun /
  • Lawson Fusao Inada
  • Renewal : Algona, Washington /
  • Lonny Kaneko
  • Performance to Garrett Hongo (after opening night of a Frank Chin play) ;
  • Luck, himself /
  • Norman M. Kaneko
  • A child's memories ;
  • Izu /
  • Chris Kobayashi
  • Akiko's acre of love /
  • Robert H. Kono
  • Motherhood /
  • Keiko Kubo
  • Monsoon season /
  • Geraldine Kudaka
  • We, the dangerous ;
  • The question is ;
  • For my father ;
  • Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe ;
  • Desert flower ;
  • The woman and the hawk /
  • Janice Mirikitani
  • After papa died /
  • Grace Morizawa
  • Deneguan ;
  • Oba-chan /
  • Lane Kiyomi Nishikawa
  • I span the ages ;
  • For Jane ;
  • On soldier's pay ;
  • Love poem /
  • Francis Naohiko Oka
  • Obake /
  • Donna Risé Omata
  • Hypothermia /
  • Alan K. Ota
  • One clear blue winter morning /
  • Richard Oyama
  • Oba-san ;
  • Sagimusume : the white heron maiden /
  • Jonny Kyoki Sullivan
  • Journey of the rice-eaters ;
  • Appendix to executive order /
  • Ronald Tanaka
  • Law and oda /
  • Ray K. Tsuchiyama
  • The fisherman ;
  • Rope ;
  • At Manzanar the mountains ;
  • Matsutake hunting /
  • Doug Yamamoto
  • Maceio Maceió /
  • Karen Tei Yamashita
  • To the Manongs of Walnut grove (song) /
  • Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo.