Joseph Ishikawa Collection ddr-densho-468
552 items
552 items

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Poem: "You are light" (ddr-densho-468-1)
Handwritten draft with opening of letter upside down on left side of first page

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Short story: "At 5:46 Max burns got off the bus at 27th" (ddr-densho-468-2)
Typed draft with handwritten notes


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Short story: "Old King Bosworth was celebrating" (ddr-densho-468-4)
Typed draft with handwritten notes

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Short story: "At 7:02, still not having eaten" (ddr-densho-468-5)
Handwritten draft. Some water damage.



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Short story: "At the sound of the chimes" (ddr-densho-468-8)
Handwritten draft on stationery from The Japan-California Daily News

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Short story: "Grace Sato was happier than she'd been" (ddr-densho-468-9)
Typed draft. Story follows a woman who is shot and killed while attempting to escape Manzanar to elope with a Caucasian sailor .

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Short story: "Though of different temperaments" (ddr-densho-468-10)
Typed draft. Story follows two Issei (Kenji Hashimoto and Isamu Saito) who leave Hiroshima for America in 1910.




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Story notes and two poems (ddr-densho-468-15)
Three notecards on one sheet. The first card has story notes describing the relationship between three characters. The second and third cards have an unfinished draft of a sonnet.



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Story ideas (ddr-densho-468-18)
Three notecards with story ideas. 1. "Like reaching for the moon"; 2. two plot sketches; 3. Title "Some of my best friends are racists"




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Three poems (ddr-densho-468-23)
Three typed poems: 1. "I Miss You Most" by Gordon Heath; 2. Barnyard Muse by Joseph Ishikawa(?); 3. Hay Fever by Joseph Ishikawa(?)


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Song Lyrics: "I wonder as I wander" (ddr-densho-468-25)
Transcript of Appalachian folk hymn attributed to folklorist John Jacob Niles