Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Kagetsu, Tadashi Jack, 1931-2006, author.

Title The tree trunk can be my pillow : the biography of an outstanding Japanese Canadian / Tadashi Jack Kagetsu ; introduction by Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross
Published Victoria, BC : University of Victoria, [2017]
©2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Contents Hard life of a first born -- Getting started in a new land -- Early logging ventures -- A large-scale logging operation -- Life in a logging camp -- An unwanted partnership -- Personal life -- Maintaining Japanese traditions -- Education is a top priority -- A man of faith in action -- The Canadian Japanese Association in action -- Other activities in the community -- Participation in memorable events -- The Vimy pilgrimage and Berlin Olympics -- A great honour is savoured -- Pearl Harbor and its aftermath -- Our lives are changed forever -- Meagre compensation for liquidated assets -- Starting a new life in the East -- The elder statesman is still active -- Life's sunset
Summary This book is a son's tribute to his father, delivered to readers after the death of both. As Jack Kagetsu laboured for a decade on his manuscript, travelling to archives, combing newspaper articles, and organizing his findings as well as his memories into writing, he must have felt that he was discovering parts of himself as well as his father. It is a very personal history. The book also has communal resonance for Japanese Canadians. It reflects reverence for elders and speaks to the accomplishments and losses of a generation of immigrant founders, the Issei. In the case of Eikichi Kagetsu both accomplishment and loss were of staggering proportions; perhaps no one else built so much, only to see it stolen in the mid-twentieth century odyssey of Japanese Canadians
Analysis Biography: general
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (UVicSpac, October 14, 2020)
Subject Kagetsu, Eikichi, 1883-1967.
SUBJECT Kagetsu, Eikichi
Subject Businesspeople -- British Columbia -- Biography
Japanese -- British Columbia -- Biography
Biography: general.
Japanese
Businesspeople
Congee.
Logging.
Shogun.
Tokugawa ieyasu.
Toyotomi hideyoshi.
Steam donkey.
British columbia.
Oda nobunaga.
Vancouver.
Battle of mukden.
SUBJECT British Columbia -- Biography
Subject British Columbia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781550586121
1550586122
9781550586138
1550586130
1550586114
9781550586114