<Begin Segment 22>

TI: So, so the family then goes to the assembly center. So which assembly center did your family go to?

TK: We went to Puyallup.

TI: And what was that like for you?

TK: [Laughs] Actually, I don't know. I don't know what it was like, I can't recall. Well, I guess everybody else was there, so.

TI: Well actually, I left out something important before we go to Puyallup. So during this time, you had a girlfriend. Weren't you at this point, sort of looking to get married about this time?

TK: Yeah, yeah, she was, there was a Japanese-style go-between. We didn't need her, but she was the Japanese-style, so there was a go-between lady. And this, the girl that was to be my wife, she stayed with that family instead of going. Her family moved to Spokane, 'cause they had relatives over there, but my girlfriend stayed with this lady's family, this lady. So she was here all the time. Then she, when she went to Puyallup, she went with that family. They were just a couple. Their, her daughters were not in Washington state, so they had gone somewhere else. So my, my to-be wife, she stayed with this lady, that's as far as I can remember.

TI: Okay, so your future wife, so you and your future wife knew that you were going to get married. So she stayed back while the rest of her family went to Spokane. And then she stayed with the go-between family. And then, so then you both went to Puyallup. So tell me, what was the name of your wife?

TK: Kuni.

TI: And how did the two of you meet?

TK: Oh, we used to hang around Tokuda Drug on Seventeenth and Yesler. And she was there, she's Tokuda's cousin, so she was there. We just happened to meet that way.

TI: And what was it about your wife that attracted you to her? What was that?

TK: I don't know. Just, I guess she was hanging around there, so...

TI: But then you guys knew that you wanted to get married, so that's why she stayed back.

TK: Not at that time. [Laughs]

TI: Oh, but later. [Laughs] Okay, so Puyallup, and then from Puyallup, where did you go?

TK: We went from Puyallup to Idaho.

<End Segment 22> - Copyright © 2008 Densho. All Rights Reserved.