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MH: This is an interview with Kazuo Kinoshita, a Nisei man, eighty-nine years old, at Fairlawn Good Samaritan Village at House Center, Gresham, Oregon, March 20, 2003. The interviewer is Masako Hinatsu for the oral history project 2003, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center. Kaz, where were you born?

KK: I was born in Gresham, Oregon, 1914.

MH: And who was your father?

KK: Tsukuji Kinoshita.

MH: And your mother?

KK: Kizue.

MH: How many brothers and sisters did you have?

KK: Two brothers and one sister.

MH: What were their names?

KK: Yoshio and Masao is the brother.

MH: And your sister's name?

KK: Mary Hisako.

MH: And she's married to whom?

KK: Married to Nobi Hasegawa.

MH: What did your father do?

KK: Farming.

MH: And your mother, what did she do?

KK: Worked on the farm. She worked on the farm along with him.

MH: And who took care of the children? Did she take care of the children too?

KK: Yeah.

MH: What do you remember of your family life? Did you go on picnics?

KK: Yeah.

MH: You told me your father built an ofuro. What is an ofuro?

KK: It's a bathhouse.

MH: And where was it?

KK: In back of the house.

MH: Who was responsible for taking care of the ofuro?

KK: My mother.

MH: What did she do?

KK: Built a fire underneath it.

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