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MN: Now your parents are from Wakayama. Did they participate in the Wakayama Kenjinkai?

YK: Well, that was not until after the war. 'Cause we're way out in nowhere.

MN: So before the war, did you go to any of those picnics?

YK: No.

MN: Now since your family is from Wakayama-ken, did they have friends on Terminal Island?

YK: Well, I don't recall at that time having anybody on Terminal Island. That took place after the war started.

MN: And did your father ever, you mentioned they used to go down to Santa Ana to go shopping, did your father ever take you down to Los Angeles, Little Tokyo at all?

YK: Oh, no, not at all.

MN: Did any peddlers come to your farm to sell tofu or other perishable Japanese foods?

YK: Oh, no, we're way out in the inaka.

MN: What did your family usually do on Saturdays?

YK: They'd work. I think Sunday was the day off.

MN: What did they do on Sundays?

YK: Gosh, I don't recall. Probably also still worked. [Laughs]

MN: So they didn't go to Buddhist church or Christian church or anything like that?

YK: No.

MN: How did your family celebrate Oshogatsu?

YK: Well, back then, I don't recall much of that because it was just our own family, especially up in Trabuco, we were the only Japanese there. So I'm sure we probably had ozoni and things like that.

MN: Let's say you had ozoni. Where do you get the omochi?

YK: Well, that's true. Maybe we didn't have it. [Laughs] We probably just had rice balls with an in 'em.

MN: So you didn't do any mochitsuki on your farm?

YK: Oh, no.

MN: Did you have... I don't know if your family was Christian, but did they celebrate Christmas?

YK: I don't recall any Christmas celebrating back in Trabuco Canyon.

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