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TI: And how did your father meet your mother?

SI: See, I really don't know about that. I don't know whether somebody over here, I don't know whether they had, what is it, a baishakunin marriage, I don't really know. I didn't ask about that, I just knew they were married.

TI: Well, did they meet in Japan or in the Portland area?

SI: I think she came over here to get married. They must have called her to Portland, and I think they got married in the Buddhist church in Portland.

TI: And what was your mother's name?

SI: Haru.

TI: And maiden name?

SI: Sasaki.

TI: So you remember more than you think. All those puzzles are good. And your mother's family in Japan, do you know where they were from?

SI: It's Noda. Did I say that Shiga-ken was Kawase?

TI: Yeah, you said your father was Shiga-ken.

SI: Yea, but I think it was Kawase-mura, I think, or something.

TI: This is your father?

SI: Father. And then my mother, it was Noda. I don't know why it was Noda, but it was still in the Shiga-ken area, but then it's Noda.

TI: Okay, so it's great, all these things are starting to come back to you.

SI: No, I remember that because when I went to Japan when I was nine, I remember we stayed at my grandfather's, her father was ill, so that's why we went to Japan. I stayed there for four months, so that's why I remember something.

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