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DG: Did you participate in the music of the church at that time?

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: What did you do?

MH: Played the piano and direct the choir.

DG: And did your mother also?

MH: No. Mother is a minister's wife, most like.

DG: Okay. And then you taught Japanese dance to children?

MH: Yes, to groups. I went to -- well, first Terminal Island have a Japanese school. Reverend Shiraishi and wife were teaching big school. And they have some kind of a field game or something, undokai, field something. And then gakugeikai, that mean show inside the school, open house. Those time, wanted some of program, so they ask me to teach children. So I taught the children.

DG: And this was close to Terminal Island then.

MH: In the Terminal.

DG: So did you continue to do that?

MH: Yes. Terminal Island and then Gardena people wanted Gardena and then Los Angeles people wanted, so I went to Los Angeles and then some Japanese schools.

BF: So you taught a lot of different places.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: And so you gathered...

MH: Lots of people. I think all together about 150 people.

DG: Did you also teach piano lessons at this time?

MH: Yes, not too many, but I did. Watanabe-san's wife.

DG: Sachi?

MH: Sachi and Aki and those people.

DG: Were your students.

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