Kashiwagi, Hiroshi, 1922-2019

found: Kashiwagi, Hiroshi. Swimming in the American, c2005:t.p. (Hiroshi Kashiwagi) p. 4 (b. Nov. 8, 1922) back cover (professor emeritus of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, San Franciso State University and advisor, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles)

found: Kashiwagi, Hiroshi. Starting from Loomis and other stories, 2013:title page (Hiroshi Kashiwagi)

found: Wikipedia, viewed online on March 15, 2023: Hiroshi Kashiwagi (Hiroshi Kashiwagi (November 8, 1922 -- October 29, 2019) was a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor; He grew up in Loomis, a small fruit-growing town in Placer County, California; Kashiwagi and his family were sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, an internment camp for Japanese Americans; In 1966, Kashiwagi graduated from UC Berkeley, receiving a master's degree in Library Science) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Kashiwagi

found: Nichi Bei, viewed online on March 13, 2023:"Tule Lake Icon Passes: Hiroshi Kashiwagi was a Noted Poet, Playwright, Author, Actor, and Symbol os Wartime Resistance," by Patricia Wakida, November 7, 2019 (Hiroshi Kashiwagi was born ... in Sacramento, Calif. on Nov. 8, 1922; his first book, 'Swimming in the American: a Memoir and Selected Writings', was published when he was 83 years old in 2005, Kashiwagi was a prolific writer, publishing four books and writing numerous plays including 'The Plums Can Wait' (1949), 'Laughter and False Teeth' (1953), and 'The Betrayed' (1993); Kashiwagi died Oct. 29, 2019 in Berkeley, Calif.; Soon after graduating from high school in Los Angeles in 1942, Kashiwagi was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp in California; In 1966, he became one of few minority librarians in the San Francisco Public Library system. Over his 20-year career, he worked as a reference librarian in literature, Japanese language materials, science and government documents, and as a branch manager. At the Western Addition branch he began what is now the largest collection of Japanese language books on the West Coast, before retiring in 1987) - https://www.nichibei.org/2019/11/tule-lake-icon-passes-hiroshi-kashiwagi-was-a-noted-poet-playwright-author-actor-and-symbol-of-wartime-resistance/