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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Here is the photo album of the Betsuin, the Seattle Betsuin, which was published in 1954. Did you have a dance party like this at the church, no, at the temple?

YI: What?

TY: There is (a photo of) a dance party.

YI: Yes, in those days, we had a dance after a party. We always did that.

TY: At the temple? How often did you do? Once in a few months? Every month?

YI: Those were just parties. After some big parties.

TY: What kind of parties did you have, for example, at the temple?

YI: I don't know how to explain about the temple parties. After the weddings. And what kind of occasions did we have? They were having parties already when I came from Japan. It was new for me first.

TY: So you didn't do that in Japan.

YI: I had never seen it before. It's different now, though.

TY: These ballroom dances... social dances. Did you learn the ballroom dances after you came here?

YI: I don't dance. I did some Bon dances. I don't dance social dances. There were some good dancers among the first generation.

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