Densho Digital Archive
Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
Title: Walter N. Matsuoka Interview
Narrator: Walter N. Matsuoka
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda (primary); Jill Shiraki (secondary)
Location: Sacramento, California
Date: December 9, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-mwalter-01-0002

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TI: Can you tell me all your brothers and sisters? So, like starting with your oldest, can you just describe or tell me the names?

WM: My sister Bessie.

TI: And was she the oldest?

WM: Yes.

TI: Okay, Bessie, and then who came next?

WM: Tosh.

TI: Tosh.

WM: And Yosh.

TI: Yosh.

WM: And my sister Rose.

TI: Rose, okay.

WM: And Sho.

TI: Sho.

WM: And me and David.

TI: So two, four, six, seven children. And one, two... two girls?

WM: And five boys.

TI: And five boys. And you were... one, two, three, four... the sixth one. Okay. And today, how many of your brothers and sisters are alive? Besides you and David...

WM: And David, that's all.

TI: Just two.

WM: And my sister Rose.

TI: Bessie is alive?

WM: No, she's gone. Three, all young ones. All old ones die already.

TI: Oh, okay. Good.

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