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Title: Yasashi Ichikawa Interview I
Narrator: Yasashi Ichikawa
Interviewer: Tomoyo Yamada
Location: Portland, Oregon
Date: October 16, 1999
Densho ID: denshovh-iyasashi-01-0030

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[Translated from Japanese]

YI: Her son is already the head.

TY: Mr. Otani?

YI: That person's son.

TY: This is the new...

YI: That's right. It's the new temple.

TY: What year was this completed?

YI: This temple? What year was it? It was written. This is the old temple.

TY: Is this the old temple?

YI: It's been already seventy-five years since [inaudible]. It's been seventy years since the temple was built.

TY: In 1940...

YI: What year?

TY: This new temple was built on October 5th in 1941.

YI: Nineteen...

TY: Forty-one.

Shinya: Forty-one. October.

YI: It was a little before the war.

TY: It was completed a little before the war, wasn't it?

YI: Yes. Around that time.

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