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Early British Comlumbian Japanese

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Re: Early British Comlumbian Japanese

Posted: 3 May 2015 12:38PM GMT
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I don't know anything of British Columbian Japanese, I know a little about Ebisuzaki family. My friends Yoshi and Bill live in B. C. and has a shop called English Bay Gallery.

Fumiyo Ebisuzaki
Ebisuzaki is a very unusual name. I am told we related to all the Ebisuzaki. Ebisuzaki Mon is 3 yang lines in a hexagram. This Mon is unusual. Ebisu is the god of the sea and luck. He is depicted with a fish and usually accompanied by the god of the land or is fat and happy with big ear lobes god among the 7 good luck gods. Saki is a point of land. Perhaps the Ebisuzaki associated with the wars of the Heike and Genji, and the power struggles in the court. Perhaps they were the vanquished parties that ran away into the inland sea.
My Momma is Fumiyo (Scholar/ Distinctive and Unusual ending for a female name) Ebisuzaki. Kiku (Chrysanthemum) Fukuda (lucky rice patch?) was her mother (Bachan), Katsutaro (victorious) Ebisuzaki was her father.
I have to find the name of the ship they came on. The ship came in 1900 from Okikamuro, Japan (Kamuro) now called Yajima, now known as Coconut Island or Hawaii Island. Jichan, 14, came with his mother and father. The ship couldn’t land because the Chinatown fire. The ship tried to land in San Francisco. Again, the ship couldn’t land because the San Francisco fire. The ship returned to Honolulu. Mom’s uncle – Shichiemon (Honolulu Uncle, married Hakuyo) was born the ship. Jichan’s father died on the ship. Jichan’s father is buried beneath a stone carving of a Buddha in the graveyard beneath Punchbowl. Only Hanako was left in Japan. Bachan was born as soon as the ship landed in Honolulu (at the corner of King and River – upstairs from a fabric shop).
They wrote to Kamuro reqesting that Jichan’s father’s younger brother come to continue the family name. His name was Shinazo Ebisuzaki, Her name was Wasa Yanagihara. Same mother, different father : Aunty Shizu married Nosey - Eleanor, Yubo: Uncle James/ Yoshikazu, Taichi and Aunty? – Doris (Shigenaga), Uncle Ted and Aunty Clara - Glenn and Iris (Yamamoto),
Momma was born in Waiakea, Hawaii. Mom was the eldest child. I remember goiSng to the second floor livng quarter of the Suisan building, where the Ebisuzaki family lived and had a fishing supply store right where the Suisan entrance is located now. I think that because they ate the fish from the Waiakea mill pond, they were short lived and died of cancer.
She has 1 sister, Aunty Sue (Sumie) married HideoTajiri (Uncle Hide) – Bruce and Evelyn (Garbo) and 4 brothers that survived – Uncle “Y” (Yasuji) served during WWII, and Aunty Dora (Asako) had Jill (Arakaki), Gary (Denise), Lynne (Deceased), Claire (Jon Aniya); Uncle Piston (Shin) Served during Korean conflict, and Aunty Sachi – Gwen (Craig) Newton – Lanelle Yamane, Leslie Tanaka, Flynn: Uncle Sei (Seichi) and Aunty Flo (Florence) – Ann (Imoto), Cory (?); Uncle Ma/ Mako (Masanori) and Aunty Masako – Ruth, Stephen, Elizabeth, Jeannie, Joy (Shackles). Aunty Masako was interned in Gila Camp.
She lived with her grandparents at a house my Jichan (grandfather) built for his parents (across the street from Waiakea Villa on the left hand side). Jichan’s father had a barber shop on Wailoa bridge. Mom remembers poking out the knots and trying to fish.
Jichan also built a house for his friend Mr Muranaka on the same lot. Mr Muranaka tells the story of jump ship naked and having a long streamer from his waist to keep away the sharks. And Mrs Muranaka baked the best custard pies the bakery in Shinmachi (I forget the name).
We always started up New Year’s Day with eating Ozoni, and then play firecrackers with the Ebisuzaki cousins at Bachan’s house in Panaewa.


SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Lawrence Ebisuzaki 6 Nov 2000 12:00PM GMT 
Amy Wakisaka 5 Jul 2002 4:18AM GMT 
Chum Richardson 1 Sep 2004 7:27PM GMT 
Velda Yamanak... 3 May 2015 6:38PM GMT 
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