Anyway, my grandparents were very interested in amateur Kabuki. They used to have their own Kabuki group, and they put out performances during the winter when the farm was not very busy. They had a group in Mountain View, and for some reason, they had a lot of Kabuki props, costumes and wigs. Evidently, there was some group that came from Japan and toured Los Angeles and San Francisco while they performed here where there’s all the Japanese. And when they were leaving, they didn’t want to take all these things with them because it was too much of a load. So my grandparents group somehow bought it.
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- 1. My grandparents had their own Kabuki group with props bought from Japanese touring troupes.
- 2. My family got involved in Kabuki because there was somebody in the area who was able to direct Kabuki.
- 3. My cousin taught me how to dance to fill the Kabuki intermission when I was seven.
- 4. Rev. Yoshio Iwanaga at San Jose Buddhist Temple used to come to Mountain View to teach Bon odori and dōyō (children’s songs).
- 5. Advised by Rev. Iwanaga, learned Japanese dance in Japan from the age of 11 to 14.
- 6. Taught all the dances learned in the past three years in Japan at Oakland Buddhist Temple.
- 7. Studied another three years in Japan and came back one month before the war broke out.