Letter Rochester (N.Y.), to Joseph Heco, Nagasaki (Japan) March 29, 1887

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Letter Rochester (N.Y.), to Joseph Heco, Nagasaki (Japan) March 29, 1887

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Sarah E. Winans writes to Joseph Heco inquiring on the health and well being of two Japanese men, Hanabsa Tarataro and Isngo Zengo, that resided with her father. In the post script she requests used Japanese stamps for her sons' collections.

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Winans, Sarah S.

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Tarataro, Hanabsa

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Zengo, Isngo

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Heco, Joseph, 1837-1897

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Joseph Heco (1837-1897) was a Japanese-American journalist and newspaperman. Hikozo Hamada, the farmer's son who would become Joseph Heco, was born in 1837, toward the end of the Tokugawa Era, a time of the closing of Japan to foreign influence. A few years after his father's death, his mother remarried. Fortunately the fatherless boy had been accepted to a temple school for training and education, an unusual occurrence for someone of his social class. His stepfather, a ...