Sakagawa

Parco Gallery (Motoo san), Verso (Sakagawa san) and random photo-based shows (David Bryne, Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman etc).

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To be accepted, one had to speak pidgin like a moron, and above everything else, the Sakagawa boys wanted to be accepted.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

The Sakagawa children had now reached the apex of their educational schizophrenia.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

He had fallen in love on the very day that the Sakagawa family council had decided that he should be the one to go on the ship to Hawaii, where jobs in the sugar fields were plentiful.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

After that experience, there were no more disturbances among the Sakagawa children.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

It was a dirty, cramped, unlovely living area, but fortunately it contained at the rear just enough space for Kamejiro to erect a hot bath, so that in spite of the meager income the family was somewhat better off than the neighbors, who had to pay to use the Sakagawa bath.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

But when it came time for him to buy her a new oufit, he found that he did not have the money, and he realized that even with two adults working, the Sakagawa family was existing perilously close to the starvation level.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

It happened late one afternoon when he stood in the tiny Sakagawa paddy field and looked out at the shimmering isknds of the Inland Sea, and he understood in that brilliant moment, with the westering sun playing upon the most beautiful of all waters, that he might be leaving Hiroshima-ken forever.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

The Sakagawa family trudged twenty-six miles into Honolulu, hoping that Mr. Ishii could find them some place to stay, but he could not, and they at last took up residence with more than four hundred others in an abandoned sake brewery, where rats crawled over the children at night.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

The investigating teacher smiled and passed the report approvingly along to the other two members of the board, but one of these had at her elbow an additional report on the Sakagawa girl, and this said simply, "Father, privy cleaner."

Hawaii Michener, James 1959