Oral history interviews with members of the Tacoma Buddhist Temple, 1992.

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Oral history interviews with members of the Tacoma Buddhist Temple, 1992.

This project includes interviews with the then minister of Tacoma Buddhist Temple, Reverend Kosho Yukawa, and Mrs. Yaeko Nakano, a longtime member of Tacoma Buddhist Temple and its principal organist. Yukawa describes Buddhist religious practices, the activities of the Temple and its various organizations, his family, and Sunya Pratt. Nakano discusses her family life growing up as a Japanese American in Tacoma, Washington during the Depression, her education, internment experiences during the Second World War, her training and work as a musician, and her involvement with the Tacoma Buddhist Temple in many capacities.

Transcripts : 69 p.Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.) : analog, mono.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8005098

University of Washington. Libraries

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University of Washington, Tacoma. Community History Project.

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Established by Michael Honey in 1991, the University of Washington, Tacoma's Community History Project has developed out of an ongoing series of classes, offered periodically, in which students research local history and interview people in the community about their lives, knowledge of Tacoma and its environs and opinions about a wide range of issues. Its initial goals were to document the history and ethnic diversity of the Tacoma area and to raise awareness of important aspects of history that...

Pratt, Sunya.

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Buddhist Churches of America

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Nakano, Yaeko

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Tacoma Buddhist Church.

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Stout, Susan, 1949-

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Yukawa, Kosho

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Tacoma Buddhist Temple.

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Honey, Michael.

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Professor of labor and ethnic studies and American history at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Michael Honey received his Ph. D. in history from Northern Illinois University in 1988. In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of Washington, Tacoma, as professor of labor and ethnic studies and American history in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program. He initiated and led the Center for the Study of Community and Society and the Ernie Tanner Labor and ...