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TI: So tell me a little bit about your father, you just mentioned your father. What was your father's name?
BH: Teikichi. I noticed on that thing that it's misspelled, but T-E-I-K-I... when I break it up, I can't spell it. [Laughs] Teikichi.
TI: And tell me a little bit about him. Where was he born?
BH: He was born in Japan in, way down in the southern part of the Izu Peninsula.
TI: And so do you know what prefecture that would be?
BH: Gosh, I don't know. Izu? Part of it is called Izu. It's a fishing village way down there. Actually, it's directly across from where... what do you call that man? Oh, what's his name, Townsend (Harris) or somebody?
TI: No, I don't know that. But that's okay. So Izu, and tell me a little bit about what your father's family did.
BH: I don't know what he did. Actually, I don't know too much about my family.
TI: Do you know why he decided to come to America?
BH: I think that's when everybody started to come. I think he landed in San Francisco.
TI: And do you know about what year that was?
BH: It was several years before I was born, so it must have been in the late 1890s or something? Is it 1890?
TI: Because you were born in 1913?
BH: 1913.
TI: In February. And so tell me a little bit about your mother. What was your mother's name, first?
BH: Her name was Iso, I-S-O. That's all I know. I think there was another name, but I don't know what the other one is. And I don't even know what Iso is. But she was called Iso, I-S-O.
TI: Do you know her maiden name?
BH: Suzuki.
TI: And what part of Japan was she from?
BH: That's down in, gosh, it's way down in the south, I don't know what you call that place.
TI: You mean like Kagoshima area? Down there?
BH: No, it's in Shizuoka.
TI: Oh, okay.
BH: But it's practically way at the tip of the, almost to the tip of the Shizuoka, sticks way out, I think. We were there, but I can't... Matsuzaki is actually, I think, what the place, the city or town or whatever it is. That I remember, Matsuzaki.
TI: And do you know much, anything about your mother's family in terms of what they did?
BH: I don't know anything about my mother's.
TI: How about how your mother and father met?
BH: I don't know either, 'cause they were in the same village, so I guess... I have no idea. They didn't... I wasn't interested in those days, either.
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