Samurai of Gold Hill
Cultural News: Lecture: True story of the first Japanese colony, Jan 19
January 19, 2010 (Tuesday) 6:30 PM
Brian Tadashi Maeda, film director, will be speaking about his current film project: “Samurai of Gold Hill”
It is the fascinating sage of the “Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony,” first Japanese colony to establish itself in California.
The last samurai group of Aizu-Wakamatsu during the Bakumatsu (the End of Tokugawa Shogunate) period, escaped from Japan with a lead of a German to settling in Gold Hill, California.
The year was 1869, the second year of the Meiji when they finally arrived at California. [more information]
More information about Wakamatsu Colony at Rafu Shimpo: A Legend Reborn By Ryoko Ohnishi
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