Preliminary Inventory of the Toyo Suyemoto Collection, 1926-2006 SPEC.RARE.CMS.0161 Finding aid prepared by Audrey Wimbiscus Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
1858 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH, 43210
2025 July This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2025-07-22T10:02-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Toyo Suyemoto Collection SPEC.RARE.CMS.0161 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 19.361 Cubic feet 1926-2006 Toyo Suyemoto (1916-2003) was a writer, librarian, and survivor of the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. The Toyo Suyemoto Collection documents Toyo’s personal experiences and those of her family members in the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Topaz War Relocation Center internment camps in the Western United States during World War II, as well as her writing career and correspondence with other poets and Asian American writers; materials date from 1926 to 2006. (32) 5" legal document boxes; (5) 2.5" letter document boxes; (3) 5" letter document boxes; (1) 2.5" legal document box; (1) flat box English, Japanese Suyemoto, Toyo, 1916-2003 Arrangement of Materials

This collection is unprocessed; materials are arranged in the order received.

 Acquisitions Information

Donated by James R. Bailey, 2004 November; Donated by John Howard Kidd, 2004 November

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Toyo Suyemoto Collection, SPEC.RARE.CMS.0161, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Contains VHS videocassettes, audiocassettes, and compact discs.

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Audiovisual materials may need a use copy produced before access is allowed. The remainder of this collection is available for patron research, but may be used only in the Thompson Library Special Collections reading room.

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 Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed. Finding aid written by: Maureen H. Donovan and Shelley Bloom, 2006; Audrey Wimbiscus, 2025 July

 Biographical Note

Toyo Suyemoto was a writer, librarian, and survivor of the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She was born on January 14, 1916 in Oroville, California to Tsutomu Howard Suyemoto (d.1959) and Mitsu Hyakusoku Suyemoto (d. 1950); she was the oldest of their eleven children. Toyo grew up in Sacramento, California where she attended school through junior college. Her family then moved to Berkeley, California where she studied at the University of California, earning a bachelor of arts in 1937 with majors in Latin and English. She continued her schooling with graduate work in English from 1937 to 1941.

Starting in the 1930s and continuing throughout her life, Toyo wrote extensively; her published poetry and essays appeared primarily in Japanese American newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. In January 1934, she wrote an unpublished paper discussing the Japanese American literary scene of the time. Among the poets discussed was her future husband, Iwao Kawakami, a poet and Nisei newspaper writer and editor; Toyo met him when she applied for a job at a newspaper he edited. Against the wishes of her parents, she became romantically involved with Iwao, who was married. Following his divorce, they married in 1941 and had a son, Kay Kawakami, who was born on October 13, 1941. Toyo and Iwao separated on Christmas Eve 1941, with a divorce finalized in 1951. Although Toyo’s publications were mostly published under her maiden name of Suyemoto, she continued to use her married name of Kawakami socially throughout her life.

Toyo and Kay moved in with her family in Berkeley after she left Iwao. The Suyemoto family was sent to the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California on April 27, 1942, in compliance with Executive Order 9066. This order required the internment in camps of all Japanese Americans living in and near the West Coast of the United States. Tanforan was originally a race track; the Suyemotos were housed in whitewashed horse stalls. While at Tanforan, Kay became sick due to the harsh conditions, and was taken from the camp to be hospitalized briefly. The family was relocated on October 3, 1942 to the Central Utah Relocation Center (also known as the Topaz War Relocation Center) where they were interned until October 23, 1945. During this time, Toyo taught English and Latin in the high school and served as the librarian of the Topaz Public Library. After release, the Suyemoto family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where Toyo worked as a librarian for the Cincinnati Art Museum and the University of Cincinnati. Kay died on August 7, 1958 from complications of allergies. Toyo earned a masters degree in library science at University of Michigan, and from 1964 onwards worked at the Ohio State University Libraries. At Ohio State, Toyo was known affectionately as “Mrs. K,” and was the head of the Social Work Library and assistant head of the Education Library. She retired after 21 years of service in 1985 with the rank of Associate Professor. Toyo died on December 30, 2003 at her home in Columbus, Ohio.

 Scope and Contents

The Toyo Suyemoto Collection documents Toyo’s personal experiences and those of her family members in the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Topaz War Relocation Center internment camps in the Western United States during World War II, as well as her writing career and correspondence with other poets and Asian American writers; materials date from 1926 to 2006. The collection also documents the movement for reparations for former prisoners of the camps, and other matters related to Japanese American life. Also included are typescripts of presentations that Toyo made to college and high school classes, community groups, and others describing her internment experience, as well as newspaper articles about her experience.

Materials documenting Toyo’s writing career including poetry notebooks, diaries, correspondence with poets, writers, and artists, writing drafts, as well as journal issues and anthologies containing her published writings, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of her early writings. Toyo primarily wrote in English, but did write and publish in Japanese as well; writings in both languages are included in the collection.

Toyo maintained correspondence with other poets throughout her life, including Will C. Jumper, a fellow poet who became Professor of English at Iowa State University. The collection includes correspondence with artists Masumi Hayashi, Keiko Minami, Mine Okubo, and Julian Stanczak, and with many other Asian American writers.

 Central Utah Relocation Center Suyemoto (Family) Suyemoto, Toyo, 1916-2003 Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) Academic librarians--Ohio--Columbus--20th century Asian American women authors--United States--20th century Audiocassettes Compact discs Correspondence Essays Internment camp inmates' writings, American Internment camps--California--San Bruno Internment camps--Utah Japanese American families Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Poetry Poetry--Women authors--20th century VHS Women internment camp inmates World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Utah "American History Honors Seminar," Gary Best and Debbie Smouse 1 1 1978 "An American Experience" (second draft) 1 2 after 1945 November "An American Experience in Wartime Concentration Camps," Otterbein College 1 3 1987 April 21 "Being a Nisei" 1 4 1972 September 28 "Camp Memories: Rough and Broken Shards," Reminiscenes on Camp Life, International Conference on Relocation and Redress: The Japanese-American Experience, Salt Lake City (photocopy) 1 5 1983 March 11 Doulin (Tim): "Woman Recalls Pain of Internment Camps," Columbus Dispatch (clipping and photocopy) 1 6 1987 April 22 "Distorted Images" 1 7 undated "Forced Exodus: An American Experience (Wartime Evacuation and Internment of the Japanese Americans)," Oberlin College 1 8 1973 March 10 "Evacuation and Internment of the West Coast Japanese" 1 9 after 1945 October "Evacuation and Internment of the West Coast Japanese" (incomplete) 1 10 undated "Growing up a Nisei in California" 1 11 after 1944 "Growing up a Nisei in America" 1 12 after 1945 "Nisei American" 1 13 1990 October 19 "Hyphenated American" 1 14 after 1942 "Internment Years" 1 15 after 1942 "Japanese American" 1 16 after 1945 "Japanese American (E Pluribus Una)" 1 17 after 1942 "One Branch of the Ume (Japanese Flowering Plum)" 1 18 undated "A Personal View of the Wartime Internment of the Japanese Evacuees" 1 19 after 1944 "Sic Persona" and "Sonnet: Edna St. Vincent Millay" 1 20 after 1960 "Tanforan High School" 1 21 undated "Yesterday and Today" 1 22 circa 1981 Untitled, 3 page holographic 1 23 1952 "Otterbein English Festival" brochure 1 24 1988 April 27 Moran (Virginia): "Jewel of the Desert" interview and photocopy 1 25 1995 "Questions for Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami" 1 26 undated Japanese American National Museum Quarterly "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience"; "Topaz Pilgrimage" flyer 1 27 1994 October-December, 1995 May 26-29 Japanese American National Museum Annual Report 1 28 1993 July 1-1994 June 30 Japanese American National Museum Quarterly 1 29 1997 Topaz Museum: "Funding for Perpetuity" brochure 1 30 1993 October 21 "Return to Topaz '93" 1 31 1993 May 29-30 "Return to Topaz '93: Recollections Reflections Rememberances" and letters from Chairperson Chuck Kubokawa 1 32 1993 November 16 "Relocation & Redress: The Japanese American Experience (An International Conference) University of Utah and Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City": program and schedules 1 33 1983 March 10-12 "Guilty By Reason of Race" program at Bowling Green State University, related materials, and R. Errol Lam correspondence 1 34 1975 May 16-June 2 Multicultural Ethnic Studies at Central High School in Columbus (invitation letter); Georgina Bowman correspondence 1 35 1971 October 21, 1972 January 29 Draft of letter to Patricia Wakida and poems 1 36 2000 October 30, circa 2001 Asian American Theater Company schedule and flyers; Asian American Theater newspaper clippings (Calvin Ahlgren) 1 37 1992 November 11 "Continuing Traditions: Japanese American Story of a People" Sacramento History Museum flyer featuring reproduction of George Mathis's "Wakamatsu Colonists Planting Mulberry Trees (1870)" 1 38 1992 1993 Topaz Calendar from Sue Hayashi 1 39 1992 December 15 Proposed Curriculum Procedures for Japanese Relocation Centers, Stanford University 1 40 1942 Unfinished letter addressed to Mrs. Knapp 1 41 undated English Composition Class papers (assignments from two Topaz High School students): “On American Leisure” and “How the Day Comes into Our Small Town” 1 42 1943 July 15-August 31 Kawakami (Toyo S.) Tanforan Mess Hall Card, Topaz correspondence, and pencil sketches 1 43 1943 February 10 Topaz High School: Latin lesson plans 1 44 1944 February 2-April 26 Teaching staff meeting notes on Topaz and Tule Lake relocation/replacements 1 45 1943 July-September Status and job hunting correspondence; magazine clippings 1 46 1944-1945 "Americanization and Poetry" and revisions memorandum from R. A. Bankson 1 47 1943 June 22 Ernst (Charles F.): relocation materials from Topaz, Utah War Relocation Authority; Gaibu Tenju (Japanese "relocation manual") 1 48 circa 1944 Japanese groups and associations in the United States; "Community Analysis Report" 1 49 1943 March DeWitt (J. L.): "Civilian Exclusion Order No. 5...Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry..." (reprint by Japanese American Citizens League) 1 50 1942 April 1 "Topaz Public Library; a History" 2 1 after 1945 June 23 Transfer slip from school director of basic English to Assistant Librarian and notice of assignment slip; Kay Kawakami’s nursery enrollment card 2 2 1943 December 3-1945 August 17 California Alumni Association card and graduate student registration card, University of California 2 3 1940 August-1944 May 22 Suyemoto (Toyo) and Nori Ikeda: “Report of the Basic English Division of the Adult Education Department" 2 4 1942 October 18-1943 February 20 Topaz photographs and postcards 2 5 1942-1945 “Children of the Block" photograph with note from Jim Bailey: “Kay is on left side, front row" 2 6 2004 September 2 Small note book with teaching notes 2 7 1943 RAM-BLER (Topaz City High School) 2 8 1945 March 16 Mailing list of the Cincinnati chapter, Japanese American Citizens League 2 9 1952 Letter from Charles F. Ernst, Project Director, War Relocation Authority Central Utah Project and related materials 2 10 1943 December 11 Letter from Drayton B. Nuttall, Principal of Topaz City High School and “Basic English Adult Education Department" fall schedule 2 11 1943 September 2 Printed letter from President George H. W. Bush and photocopies of check, envelope 2 12 1990 October 10-15 Application for federal employment 2 13 1945 January 8 Letter from Josephine Borson, Doctor of Medicine; Topaz and related materials 2 14 1942 January 13-1991 December 1 Suyemoto (Joe) and Betty Emlen correspondence; National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and Topaz City High School materials; clipping of Japanese-American evacuees 2 15 1944-1945 Suyemoto (Dr. Joe) Boston Globe obituary, memorial service program, and poem 2 16 1991 February 11 Letters to Joe from Mom (dictated to various family members) 2 17 1945 May 15-August 9 Letters to Joe from Mae 2 18 1945 May 25-July 4 Letters to Joe from Lee 2 19 1945 June 4-1957 August 18 Letter to "Everybody" [sic] 2 20 1945 September 29 "The Offering" with notes and corrections 2 21 undated "Hearsay" 2 22 undated "School Play/Pageant" and "Unfinished Journey" 2 23 undated Denison University evaluation forms for Victoria Chen including comments about Toyo Kawakami visit 2 24 1997 Matsumoto (Valerie): "Desperately Seeking 'Deirdre': Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930’s" and related materials 2 25 1991 News Notes (Ohio State University Libraries) including tribute to Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami (Susan B. Richardson) 2 26 2004-2005 April 12 Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (Association of College and Research Libraries) program and certificate; Marda Woodbury materials; "School Activities and the Library;" letter from E. J. Josey 2 27 1971-1993 June 28 Bamboo Leaves: Newsletter of the Asian American Association Ohio State University 2 28 1976 "Directory of Significant 20th Century American Minority Women" 2 29 after 1976 Resume and personnel data record of library faculty 2 30 after 1980 May 31 "Contemporary Authors Biography": corrected proofs (photocopy) 2 31 after 1975 Chow (Christopher), Daniel L. Dorman, and Cecil Hale Hartzell correspondence; brochure 2 32 1975 March 31-1978 July 18 Permission form from Susan Schweik; flyers for "The Evacuation Dairy of Hatsuye Egami," and “The Pre-Poetics of Internment" 2 33 1990 October 3-1996 March 18 Materials related to oral testimony before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in Chicago 2 34 1981 July-September Press materials 2 35 1933 March 17- after 1998 January "Topaz Times: the City" and class of 1945 high school reunion materials; Jane Beckwith correspondence 2 36 1985 June-1998 Correspondence, course materials, and written works 2 37 1995-2000 "Time Disrupted: Years of Internment" 2 38 1942 April Notes 2 39 after 1945 Notes 2 40 after 1944 Small notebook of copies of poems by various authors 2 41 undated Poems: "Shawn Wong," "To Doug Yamamoto," and "To Lawson Inada" 2 42 1975 September 10-1981 May 11 Portfolio with tie closure containing copies of poems (many by Will C. Jumper); notes and lists 2 43 after 1940-1958 Spiral-bound notebook containing copies of poems by various authors 2 44 undated Written assignment for English 6a 3 1 1935 February 12 "Second Generation Japanese Poetry: English 7," includes newspaper clippings; "Camp Poems" 3 2 1934 January 14 "From Time Remembered: Selected Poems" by Will C. Jumper with handwritten note; "A Birthday Poem for Toyo: Storm" inscribed by Jumper 3 3 1952 January 14-1978 Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings of poems by various writers 3 4-5 4 1 undated Leap (Ambar): "Lost Syllables," Poetry 4 2 1959 August 9 Scrapbook of Nisei writers (photocopy); clippings and poems 4 3 circa 1939-1940 Scrapbook of Nisei writers (original); clippings and poems 4 4 1939-1940 Scrapbook including San Francisco newspaper clippings, schematic drawings (Topaz), and correspondence photocopies 4 5 1942 September 23-1943 May 18 Typed poems 5 1 1948-1997 Typed poems 5 2 undated "How Small a Whisper: Poems"; numbered sheets and typed poems 5 3 1933, 1939-1945 Typed poems 5 4 circa 1958 Typed poems 5 5 1933-1961 Collection of printouts of web pages 5 6 2001 February 5 Typed poems 5 7 1942-1958 "How Small a Whisper: Poems" submitted to David Citino, Poetry Editor, University Press; poems 5 8 1989 December 25 Published poems (photocopies), publication release forms, newspaper articles, and advertisements 5 9 1978, 1998 "Seedlings and Roots (Poems in the Making)" 5 10 1995 August 25-2002 May 14 "Unfinished Poems" 5 11 1940-1941, 1997-2001 "For My Son," poems, notes 5 12 1932-2000 Typed poems: "Difference," "Gradient," "Into the Dark," "A New Year’s Prayer for Toyo" by Ellen Thun, "To Dad" and "Doubtful Lover: after Catullus" 5 13 1938-1942 "Toyo Suyemoto" holograph 6 1 1934-1937 "Poetry" holograph 6 2 1933 January-1938 June "Poetry" holograph 6 3 1938 August 6-1943 May 15 "Poetry" holograph 6 4 1943 May 18-1955 October 7 "Poetry" holograph 6 5 1955 October 13-1966 May 10 "Current Life: The Magazine for the American Born Japanese" 6 6 1940 October-1942 January "Trek" (Topaz, Utah: Project Reports Division, Central Utah Relocation Center); "Gain" 6 7 1942 December "Trek" (Topaz, Utah: Project Reports Division, Central Utah Relocation Center) 7 1 1943 February-June "All Aboard" (Topaz, Utah: Central Utah Project) 7 2 1944 Notebook of poems and notes by various authors 7 3 undated "Essays and Poetry" and scrapbook photocopy 7 4 1936-1939 "Prologue to Twenty" [sic]; "Essays and Poetry" photocopy 7 5 1934-1935 "Essays and Poetry": original scrapbook of newspaper clippings of publications 8 1 1936-1939 Journal entries and other notes 8 2 1944 January 3-1991 December 30 Binder with one typed poem per page 8 3 1947-1958 Notes and drafts collected for memoir of internment; publication materials 8 4 1972-1982 "Guest Book": Topaz Public Library featuring sketches of daily life at Topaz 8 5 1943-1961 Letters to Joe from Toyo Suyemoto 9 1 1945 May 25-1946 August 7 "Topaz" variations including romanized translations and Japanese terms 9 2 after 1942 September 11 Mersereau (Ann): "A Primer of Democracy: Why Is America?"; "Utah" teacher's copies; additional literature 9 3 1942 December "A Prayer for Teachers": The Weekly Adult Education Bulletin Central Utah War Relocation Center 9 4 1943 April 2 "3 in 1 Extravaganza: Let's Sing" 9 5 undated War Relocation Authority Transfer Slip and Notice of Reassignment; Personnel Record Form; Lorne W. Bell correspondence 9 6 1943 June 19-December 3 "Fighting Americans, Too!" (Volunteers for Victory) and "Topaz Times = Topazu Shinpo" (English and Japanese versions); related materials 9 7 1943 January 1-April 20 Suyemoto (Joe) works and Topaz/War Relocation Authority identification materials 9 8 1942-1945 March 16 Letter from James Landis, Editorial Director, William Morrow and Company, Incorporated Publishers; Toyo Suyemoto works 9 9 1942 April-1981 November 30 "Welcome to Topaz": Central Utah Relocation Project with note on Mae Suyemoto's arrival 9 10 1943 October 3 "Kay Kawakami" 9 11 after 1958 July 11 "Directory For Resettlers, Community Agencies and Local Resources, Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio" 9 12 1999 May 17 War Relocation Authority Records for Toyo S. Kawakami 9 13 1985 June 28 Welkos (Robert) newspaper clipping ("Japanese-Americans Split on Reparations"); Mr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Good and Kazuye correspondence; "The Rafu Shimpo ’82 Year End Magazine" 9 14 1982 December 21-1983 January 4 Letter from Russell Leong, Editor of the Amerasia Journal; poems, literary journals, photographs, and correspondence 9 15 1969 June-1995 October 12 Letter from United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Office of Redress Administration; photocopy of birth certificate of Toyo Suyemoto and certification 9 16 1990 March 14 Drafts for memoir; "Trek", "Relocation Planning" notes and drafts, and miscellaneous notes 9 17 after 1944 August 31 Letter to Fellowship Publications and other education associations/councils; letters to Muriel Rukeyser, Caroline Schauffler, and David Daiches 9 18 1966 August 26-1977 August 12 "National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism" materials; "A More Perfect Union Reception" 9 19 2000 November 9-11 Letter from Frank Chin; "The Day Came Not So Soon" and "Yellow" proofs; and "Author's Permission to Print" form 9 20 1998 March 30 American Council on Public Affairs: "The Displaced Japanese-Americans"; related journals, newspaper clippings, poems, and correspondence 9 21 after 1944 April-1992 December 20 "The New World Daily News", "Cincinnati Times", and "The Reader's Digest" clippings; additional correspondence and photographs 9 22 1933 March 17-2003 August 17 Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami Nisei Poet and 'Relocation Camp' Internee flyer; Kevin House on Gwendolyn Brooks clipping; and "Gidra" excerpt 9 23 after 1990-1993 March 13 Letters from James M. Omura 9 24 1984 March 1-1992 Letter from Erica Harth (Brandeis University) and "Another Spring" draft 9 25 1999 October 21 Suyemoto (Toyo) works; Sandra C. Taylor correspondence; and academic/literary materials 9 26 1934 November 29-1984 February 4 Holograph letters to Hideichi 9 27 1989 February 23-2000 February 25 Moran (Virginia): "Fourteen Karat Gold" 9 28 after 1958 "Library News Notes": The Ohio State University Libraries and "Focus on Education": The Ohio State University College of Education 9 29 1985-1989 June 20 Envelope addressed to Miss Toyo Suyemoto 9 30 undated Correspondence, flyer, program, handout: legacy/reunion materials 9 31 1987 April 20-1988 April 18 Letter from Andrew Wertheimer with articles/documents on history of libraries in internment camps (Santa Anita, Manzanar); photographs of Japanese sign Issei library 9 32 1995 July 5 Note and postcard from Masumi Hayashi with Rafu Shimpo (article about Frank Chin) 9 33 1998 December 11-2000 April 19 D'Aquino (Iva) ("Tokyo Rose") and "Americans After All" newspaper clippings 9 34 1956 March 5-August 16 Cards and letters received on the occasion of Toyo's retirement from Ohio State University Libraries; Faculty Women's Club brochure; poems 10 1 1936 September 9-1985 Literature on Japanese displacement, relocation, internment camps, and Japanese-American experiences 10 2 1943 May-1992 Miscellaneous magazine and newspaper clippings for craft projects 10 3 1969 October- 1983 November 11 "Notice: Instructions to All Japanese" ("Oberlin College" holograph on cover) 10 4 circa 1973 Magazine clipping from "Time"; photocopies of magazine articles; newpaper clippings; handwritten class assignment; copy of "Topaz (Advanced)" 10 5 1943 June 12-1981 August 17 Materials from "Bridge: An Asian American Perspective" and "Education in Japan; Journal for Overseas"; booklet; film summary and poem 10 6 1971-1975 August "Discover your Mission: Selected Speeches and Writings of Yuri Kochiyama"; event programs, attendee list, registration conformation and flyer 10 7 1988 June-2000 November 10 "Hearings: Chicago, Illinois" 10 8 1981 September 22 "East Wind; Politics and Culture of Asians in the U.S." and "The Midwest Quarterly; a Journal of Contemporary Thought" 10 9 1978-1984 Flyer for Asian American Writers Conference, The Oakland Museum; Virginia Moran and Bill Suyemoto works; poems and photographs 10 10 1936-1995 Richardson (Susan): "Hisaye Yamamoto's Gentle Antidote: Narratives of Japanese American Women in Exile While At Home" 10 11 after 1989 "A Conference of Japanese America Actors, Artists, Activists and Interested Critics"; "Conscience and Constitution"; materials from Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and The Ohio State University College of Social Work 10 12 2004-2005 October 7 Letter from James M. Omura with speech: "Japanese American Journalism During World War II" and book critique: "Debunking the JACL Fallacies" 10 13 1987 August 23-1988 March 31 Letters from Patricia Wakida of Heyday Books 10 14 1999-2000 "40th Year Topaz Reunion" and related printed photographs; photocopy of Cincinnati Post clipping; letter; photocopy of poem 10 15 1982 November 14-2001 November 15 Bibliographies on Asian American literature and writers 10 16 1983 May 21-1996 "Collection of Personal Writings and Nisei Writers; Scrapbook Titled 'Prologue to Twenty'"; "List of Publications (partial)"; newspaper clippings on Executive Order 9066 and internment 10 17 after 1960-1988 May 16 Topaz materials from Jane Beckwith: letter, photographs, brochure 10 18 1942 December, 1981 September 23-1985 January 8 "Topaz Museum to Link Camp's Past, Present"; Topaz photographs with haiku; "Topaz Times, the City" 10 19 1994 July-1997 July Correspondence related to speaking invitations, publications, conference participation, professional service, and other matters 10 20 1972-1983 Published poems and writings (photocopies); "Camp Memories: Rough and Broken Shards"; table of contents draft for "How Small A Whisper" poem collection 10 21 1995 Reading notes on Gerald W. Haslam: "Forgotten Pages of American Literature" 10 22 1970 Hongo (Kozo): "Former OSU Employee Recalls Pearl Harbor"; "Japanese-Americans Recall Years in 'Relocation Centers'" (Lori Olszewski); brochure, and photograph 10 23 1980 December 7-1997 December 5 "I Call To Remembrance: Years of Internment" 10 24 1942 April Richardson (Susan): syllabus for English 255: Ethnic American Literatures; poem; and related materials, notes, and photocopies 10 25 1996 June 3-September 3 Envelope from Susan Richardson/Consolo with edited version of article; poems and handout 10 26 1993 May-1998 June 24 McWilliams (Carey): "What about Our Japanese-Americans?"; "The Ohioana Library Yearbook: Ethnic Groups" 10 27 1944-1977 "Evacuation and Internment of Japanese Americans" and related correspondence, articles, and essays 11 1 1943 January 1-March 27 Scrapbook with instructions for sewing alterations, clothes patterns, and cutout pictures 11 2 circa 1966 Withholding statements, curriculum vitae, correspondence, poems, and related materials/photocopies 11 3 1940-1962 April 8 Newspaper clippings, postcards, Sakura Company flyer, and wedding brochures related to Japanese culture 11 4 1974 October 13-1978 September 16 "Nikkei Heritage", "Teaching Tolerance", and "California Monthly" with a note from Jim 11 5 1992 December 26-1995 Correspondence with Rosen and Rosen related to the divorce of Toyo Kawakami and Iwao Kawakami 11 6 1951 June 6 Letters from Weldon A. Kefauver (Director of Ohio State University Press; rejecting "How Small a Whisper") and Jane Beckwith; "Names Not Be Fictionalized" 11 7 1966 August 18-1987 July 21 Photocopies of articles and clippings of internment and Asian-American literature 11 8 1987 November 21-1999 February 19 Two copies of "Evacuation and Internment of the West Coast Japanese" and "Evolution of Minority Rights" 11 9 1972 April-1987 Erlanger (Ellen): "Toyo: A Poet Shares Her Life" and related literature, clippings, brochure, and photographs 11 10 1974 February 24-1995 Correspondence 11 11 1997-1999 Nishi (Setsuko Matsunaga): "Overcoming the Enemy Identity: Emergent Japanese American Community in Wartime and Post War Saint Louis and Chicago" (draft) 11 12 2001 May 17 Correspondence of Toyo to and from Sue Hayashi 11 13 1981-2002 Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photocopies and other materials pertaining to the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, redress, oral histories, and related topics 11 14 1973 July 27-1986 November "Testimony Preparation Materials" (Japanese American Citizens League) 11 15 1981 May 11 Leong (Russell): "Toshio Mori: An Interview" for Amerasia Journal and letter from Grant Din 11 16 1980-1985 January 16 "Civil Action No. 83-0750" (District Court for The District of Columbia) and National Council for Japanese American Redress "Newsletter" 11 17 1983 June 11-July 30 Newspaper and magazine clippings on the experience of evacuation and internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII and addressing the topic of Redress 12 1 circa 1981-1983 Materials from Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta 12 2 1988 Correspondence 12 3 1970s-1991 Newspaper clippings and correspondence 12 4 1990s-2000 Letter from Constance Andrea Keremes and "The Development and Operation of Libraries within Japanese American Internment Camps" thesis proposal 12 5 1993 December 14 Letter and questionnaire from Nancy Kawasaki 12 6 1996 December 23 Newspaper and magazine articles on Japanese Americans and internment 12 7 1995 Memorial notices for Amnon Zipin and Perry A. Davis; young adult literature lists 12 8 1993 June 25 Cass (Marybeth): "Librarian Relates Hardships of U.S. Concentration Camps" and related newspaper clippings, photographs, and flyer 12 9 1962 April 8-2003 February 19 "Japanese American National Museum" 12 10 1990-1994 Materials from the Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum, and University of California, Los Angeles Wright Art Gallery; related materials and correspondence 12 11 1989-1993 Letters and correspondence 12 12 1988-2000 Young People's Christian Conference of Northern California Souvenir Program 12 13 1934 Letter from Sandra C. Taylor including edited copy of "Camp Memories: Rough and Broken Shards" 12 14 1984 January 25 "An Asian American Calendar" (Asian American Resource Workshop) 12 15 1982 Letters from Sandra C. Taylor and Dean L. May; newspaper articles, brochures, and programs pertaining to Japanese American internment 12 16 1983 April 18-May 9 Newspaper and magazine clippings on Japanese Americans, internment, and related issues 13 1 circa 1970s-1980s Letter to Doug Yamamoto with press release for the "Japanese American Anthology" 13 2 1975 September 8 Materials related to the International Conference on Relocation and Redress: The Japanese-American Experience; "Camp Memories: Rough and Broken Shards" 13 3 1983 Newspaper clippings, poetry, and other writings and articles; works by and about Yasuo Sasaki 13 4 1934-1952, 1979-1995 Articles, manuscripts, poetry, and newspaper clippings 13 5 1933-1993 Letter from Helen Hiltbrand; "People Weekly" 13 6 1983 April 26-May 2 Asian and Pacific Island Americans issue in "Social Casework" 13 7 1976 March Letter from Sue Hayashi; Jan Muto's "Books to Inspire" 13 8 2002 December 11 "Prologue; the Journal of the National Archives" 13 9 1980 Photographs of Topaz, Utah internment camp remains 13 10 circa 1976 Zimmerman (Paul): "Citizens behind Barbed Wire: The Japanese Relocation and Democratic Ideals in Total War" 13 11 1969 Tohmatsu (Akiko J.): "Japanese American Youth in Topaz Relocation Center, Utah: An Oral History" 13 12 1994 "The Evacuation of Japanese Civilians From the Pacific Coast In World War II: Bibliography" and notes; poetry, related literature and programs; permission form from University of Arizona 13 13 1935 May 7-1971 June 28 Letter from Willliam Hohri; "Draft Resistance: Challenging the Constitutionality of Detention" 13 14 1998 "An American Experience" (Ohio Library Association); related printouts, notes, and poems 13 15 1987 January 8- 1999 March 23 Correspondence 13 16 circa 1994-1998 Correspondence 14 1 circa 1996-1999 Correspondence 14 2 circa 1997-2000 "Distorted Images" and "Firepot - Not the Melting Pot" 14 3 circa 1989 Chu (Dorothy): "Some Aspects of the Asian American Experience" and related literature, notes, and pamphlet 14 4 1976-1994 Articles about Asian Americans by various authors 14 5 circa 1970-1984 Bibliographies of materials about Asian Americans; notes and correspondence; "Firepot - Not Melting Pot" 14 6 1982 February 20 Clippings about Asian Americans, race and ethnicity in census data 14 7 1981 United States Department of Commerce booklets: "We the Asian Americans" and "We the American Foreign Born" 14 8 1970 News clippings about Asian Americans, John McCloy, and redress movement; "Even His Name Will Die: the Last Days of Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi" 14 9 1976-1980s Articles on Asian American culture, racism and related topics and notes 14 10 circa 1980s "Columbus Citizen" reprints of WWII front pages; newspaper/magazine clippings, and correspondence (Jean Lundstedt and Shawn H. Wong); "Vita" 14 11 1975 August 11-1997 March 15 Newspaper clippings, archival collections, and information/correspondence on Japanese Americans and internment 14 12 1980s Correspondence with Christopher Landis; "Pilgrimage: Images from Manzanar" 14 13 1990 "Japan; the Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868" booklet; "Contemporary Japanese Prints" 14 14 1966-1988 Correspondence received at Topaz, Utah 14 15 1943-1945 Letter from William Hohri; "Rambler's Nemesis" 14 16 1994 February 18-1995 March 8 "Spicer Papers": reports on the War Relocation Authority, racism, internment, Topaz, Utah, and related matters 14 17 1943-1945 "Evacution and Internment Materials" 15 1 1970s Souvenir postcards from Japan and Hong Kong 15 2 undated Correspondence with Julian and Barbara Stanczak; other works and newspaper clippings 15 3 1970-1997 Din (Grant): transcript of interview with Toyo S. Kawakami; correspondence 15 4 1982 June 3-1983 March 3 Two letters from Jane Beckwith 15 5 1994 February 5-1998 March 7 Miscellaneous notes 15 6 1940s-1950s Notepad containing poems and miscellaneous notes 15 7 2000 November 9-2001 April 2 Letters to family 15 8 1989-2000 Diary 15 9 1964 Diary 15 10 1965 Diary 16 1 1966 Pocket appointment books 16 2 1981-1984 Appointment calendar refills 16 3 1997-2002 Pocket appointment books 16 4 1972, 1973-1977, 1979-1980 Correspondence, poems, and newspaper clippings 16 5 1937-1967 Letters from Will C. Jumper 16 6 1940-1943 Letters from Will C. Jumper 17 1 1943-1947 Letters from Will C. Jumper; accompanying poems 17 2 1948-1963 Letters from Will C. Jumper, Carol and Leonard Nathan, and May Seitz 17 3 1954-1959 Letters from Will C. Jumper and other correspondence 17 4 1937-1959, 1960-1985 Correspondence (Thun, Shibata, Sasaki, Katayama, Daiches, Tajiri, Fujii, et cetera) 17 5 1933-1979 Five Year Diary 18 1 1935-1939 Diary 18 2 1940 Diary 18 3 1945 Diary 18 4 1982 Diary 18 5 1985 Diary 18 6 1986 Diary 18 7 1987 Diary 18 8 1988 Diary 18 9 1989 Diary 18 10 1990 Diary 18 11 1991 Diary 19 1 1992 Diary 19 2 1993 Diary 19 3 1994 Diary 19 4 1995 Diary 19 5 1996 Diary 19 6 1997 Diary ("The Unicorn Notebook") 19 7 1988 January 11-1990 July 11 Poems with dedication to Kay 19 8 1941-1958 Poems 19 9 1935-1962 Poems and "Selected Bibliography on Asian American Literature" 19 10 1996 July 16-October 22 Flyer for "Relocation Camp Rememberances" and materials for Library Diversity Brown Bag 19 11 2003 November 24 Letter from Stan Yogi and related materials; "Nikkei Review" 19 12 1990 March 20 Notes and drafts of poems 19 13 1952-1957, 1997-1999 Notebook with research notes 19 14 circa 1972 Poetry 19 15 1966 August 22-1990 December 5 Poetry 20 1 1991 January 1-1995 May 15 "How Small a Whisper: Poems" 20 2 1933-1978 "I Call To Remembrance: Years of Internment" (first draft) 20 3 after 1958 Chin (Frank): "Gunga Din Highway": a novel with inscription 20 4 1994-1995 October 27 "Poems of Wordsworth" and letter to Welly from Iwao 20 5 1926-1930 September 17 Inada (Lawson Fusao): "Drawing the Line: Poems" with inscription 21 1 1997-1999 July 30 Inada (Lawson Fusao): "Legends from Camp: Poems" with inscription 21 2 1992-1993 August 10 "Many Mountains Moving: a Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices" 21 3 1996 Shapiro (Karl): "Poems: 1940-1953" with inscription and letter 21 4 1953-1954 Four letters/cards 21 5 1936-1947 Correspondence 21 6 circa 1950-1954 Correspondence from Kay Kawakami, Will Jumper, Sue Hayashi; newspaper clipping about Karl Shapiro 21 7 circa 1955-1959 Correspondence 21 8 1960 Correspondence 21 9 1961 Correspondence 21 10 1962 Correspondence 21 11 1963 Correspondence 21 12 1964 Correspondence 22 1 1965 Correspondence 22 2 1966 Correspondence 22 3 1967 Correspondence 22 4 1968 Correspondence 22 5 1969 Correspondence 22 6 1970 Correspondence 22 7 1971 Correspondence 22 8 1972 Correspondence 22 9 1973 Correspondence 23 1 1974 Correspondence 23 2 1975 Correspondence 23 3 1976 Correspondence 23 4 1977 Correspondence 23 5 1978 Correspondence 23 6 1979 Correspondence 23 7 1980 Correspondence 23 8 1981 Correspondence 24 1 1982 Correspondence 24 2 1983 Correspondence 24 3 1984 A: correspondence 24 4 1985 B: correspondence 24 5 1985 C: correspondence 24 6 1985 A: correspondence 25 1 1986 B: correspondence 25 2 1986 C: correspondence 25 3 1986 A: correspondence 25 4 1987 B: correspondence 25 5 1987 A: correspondence 26 1 1988 B: correspondence 26 2 1988 A: correspondence 26 3 1989 B: correspondence 26 4 1989 C: correspondence 26 5 1989 A: correspondence 27 1 1990 B: correspondence 27 2 1990 C: correspondence 27 3 1990 A: correspondence 27 4 1991 B: correspondence 27 5 1991 Correspondence 28 1 1991 A: correspondence 28 2 1992 B: correspondence 28 3 1992 A: correspondence 28 4 1993 B: correspondence 28 5 1993 Correspondence 29 1 1993 A: correspondence 29 2 1994 B: correspondence 29 3 1994 A: correspondence 29 4 1995 B: correspondence 29 5 1995 A: correspondence 30 1 1995 B: correspondence 30 2 1995 A: correspondence 30 3 1996 B: correspondence 30 4 1996 C: correspondence 30 5 1996 D: correspondence 30 6 1996 A: correspondence 31 1 1997 B: correspondence 31 2 1997 C: correspondence 31 3 1997 D: correspondence 31 4 1997 E: correspondence 31 5 1997 Correspondence 31 6 1998 A: correspondence 32 1 1998 B: correspondence 32 2 1998 A: correspondence 32 3 1999 B: correspondence 32 4 1999 C: correspondence 32 5 1999 D: correspondence 32 6 1999 A: correspondence 33 1 2000 B: correspondence 33 2 2000 C: correspondence 33 3 2000 D: correspondence 33 4 2000 Correspondence 33 5 2001 A: correspondence 34 1 2001 B: correspondence 34 2 2001 C: correspondence 34 3 2001 D: correspondence 34 4 2001 A: correspondence 34 5 2002 B: correspondence 34 6 2002 Correspondence 35 1 2002 A: correspondence 35 2 2003 B: correspondence 35 3 2003 A: correspondence 35 4 undated B: correspondence 35 5 undated C: correspondence 35 6 undated Denton (Nixson): "Second Thoughts", Cincinnati Enquirer 35 7 1954 October 13 Ohio State University's Day of Remembrance: diary notations, program; "Why Were Japanese Americans Interned During World War II?" by Professor Judy Wu; "Resolution of Expression" from Columbus City Council 35 8 2003 February 5-26 Letter from Jim Bailey to Maureen Donovan with details of items in the collection 35 9 2006 July 19 Photographs: "Mom and Dad", "Family", "Kay", "School friends", "at Hayashi’s, Chicago" 36 1 1996 Photographs, letters of Iwao Kawakami 36 2 1933 October 31 Letters, cards, original etchings from Keiko Minami; cards with prints by Yozo Hamaguchi (husband of Minami) 36 3 circa 1960s-1980s Address book; "Shard from Topaz" (piece of broken porcelain); "Letter of Feb 24, 1937 from Dad" 36 4 1937 February 24 Framed drawing (rainbow scene) by Jack Young 36 5 undated Landis (Christopher): "Pilgrimage Video" 36 1 undated Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: unknown "Toyo Kawakami copy" 36 2 1993 October 5 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: unknown “Talk at Westerville South High School” 37 1 1994 April 14 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: unknown "Class visit, Denison, Fresh: Studies 101, S. Richardson, Toyo's Presentation" 37 2 1995 September 30 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: unknown Namura (George): "Return to Topaz" 37 3 1993 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: unknown "Dave Tatsuno's Original Topaz Movie and Reunions" 37 4 undated Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate run time: 76 minutes "Audiotape of Archie Miyatake" 37 1 1998 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements Audiocassette; approximate run time: unknown Interview of Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami by Mildred Covey Fry 37 2-3 37 1-2 1981 March 28 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements (2) audiocassettes; approximate run times: unknown (2) compact discs; approximate run time: unknown Kikuchi (Charles): "The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp; the Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi" 38 1 1973 Adams (Gregory): "Rhythm and Rhyme" 38 2 1939 Chin (Frank): "Born in the USA: a Story of Japanese America, 1998-1947" 38 3 2002 Taylor (Sandra C.): "Jewel of the Desert; Japanese Internment at Topaz" 38 4 1993 "The Best of 1978: Ohio Poetry Day Contest Awards" 39 1 1978 "Common Ground" 39 2 1948 June 14 "Amerasia Journal" 39 3-4 1983 "73 Ohio Poets", Cornfield Review Special Issue 39 5 1978 "Only What We Could Carry: the Japanese American Internment Experience" (with inscription from William Hohri) 39 6 2000 "The Yale Review" 39 7 1946 "Blossoms in the Desert" (with inscription from Jean Lundstedt) 39 8 2003 "American Literary History" 39 9 1989 "Quiet Fire: a Historical Anthology of Asian American Poetry, 1892-1970" 39 10 1996 Gesensway (Deborah) and Mindy Roseman: "Beyond Words: Images from America’s Concentration Camps" 39 11 1987 Harth (Erica): "Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans" 39 12 2001 "Harvest", third issue 39 13 1937 September "The Ohio Poetry Review" 39 14-15 1958 "First the Blade: California Intercollegiate Anthology of Verse" 39 16 1935 Arkin (Marian) and Barbara Shollar: "Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women, 1875-1975" 39 17 1989 "Stars in Their Eyes: Philographer’s Anthology" 40 1-2 1935 "Profile" 40 3-4 1956 "Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature", number 5 40 5 1996 Mirikitani (Janice): "Ayumi: A Japanese American Anthology" 40 6 1980 "Thirty Years of Poetry" 40 7 1960 "Crealettre" number 17 40 8-10 1960 "Crealettre" number 15 40 11 1953 "Crealettre" number 13 40 12 1951 "Crealettre" number 16 40 13 1956 "Crealettre" number 14 40 14 1952 "College Verse" volume 5 number 3 40 15 1936 January "College Verse" volume 5 number 4 40 16 1936 February "College Verse" volume 5 number 5 40 17 1936 March "College Verse" volume 5 number 6 40 18 1936 April "College Verse" volume 5 number 7 40 19 1936 May "College Verse" volume 6 number 1 40 20 1936 November "College Verse" volume 6 number 2 40 21 1936 December "The Occident" 40 22 1936 "Gyo-Sho: a Magazine of Nisei Literature" 40 23-24 1937 "Crux" volume 1 number 2 40 25-27 1964 "OLA (Ohio Library Association) Bulletin" 40 28 1974 April Schweik (Susan): "A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War" 40 29 1991 Brooks (Gwendolyn): "Aloneness" (with inscription from author) 41 1 1973 "Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson" (with card from Grace Schiele Walker; notes) 41 2 1936 Wright (Richard): "Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth" (with Topaz Public Library stamp) 41 3 1945 Dickinson (Emily): "Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson" 41 4 1945 "Poems by Emily Dickinson" 41 5 1954 Carrighar (Sally): "One Day on Beetle Rock" (with Topaz Public Library stamp) 41 6 1945 Butler Hathaway (Katharine): "The Little Locksmith" (with Topaz Public Library stamp) 41 7 1943 "The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield" (with Topaz Public Library stamp) 41 8 1940 Porter (Katharine Anne): "The Leaning Tower and Other Stories" 41 9 1944 "The Otterbein Miscellany" volume 8 number 1 41 10-12 1972 May "Japanese American Internment During World War II", an undergraduate research paper by Mildred Covey Fry 42 1 1981 April Columbus City Council "Resolution of Expression" 42 2 2003 February 19 Drawing (pencil on lined paper, matted) of Toyo by Jim Lutz 42 3 undated Unbound photocopies of “Toyo Suyemoto Scrapbook: 1936-1939” 42 4 undated “Scrapbook: 1936-1939” (bound photocopy of “Toyo Suyemoto Scrapbook: 1936-1939”) 42 1 undated Scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Toyo’s retirement from the Ohio State University Libraries with photos, letters, clippings 42 2 1985 May “Toyo Suyemoto Scrapbook: 1936-1939," original scrapbook of newspaper clippings. 42 3 1936-1939 Framed photograph with military officer (following a presentation) 42 4 1994