Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1889 at the height of Japan's westernization and raised in Kagoshima, the young Hisanori Kano was driven by twin passions, his desire to help sustain Japan's emigration program and his cultural reverence for farming.Tai Kreidler, archivist for Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, descends from a Kagoshima family. Klappentext Japanese-born Hisanori Kano came to the United States in 1916 with the blessings of his influential family, the sponsorship of William Jennings Bryan, and a commitment to master the best of American agricultural practices on the Nebraska Plains. Undertaken in 1967, after half a century in his adoptive land, Father Kano's memoir reveals how he adapted to an ever-changing American culture and landscape. Zusammenfassung "The memoir of Japanese-born Hisanori Kano! who immigrated to the United States in 1916 to learn and apply American agricultural practices on the Nebraska Plains. Ordained as an Episcopal minister and interned during WWII! Kano's memoir reveals how he adapted to a changing American culture and landscape"--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Hisanori Kano, Hisanori/ Kreidler Kano
• Assisted by: Tai Kreidler (Editor), Rose Yamamoto (Translation)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9780896726284
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-628-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies