Kamikawa, Omata and Matsumoto Families Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Omata, Hiroko
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content: Kamikawa and Omata Family Papers
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0924, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1, Kamikawa, Omata and Matsumoto Families Papers, 1850-2006, undated, is a collection of four notebooks containing detailed histories of each family.  Materials consist of copies of family photographs, family trees, newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, and correspondence.  The notebook on the history of the Kamikawa brothers was updated and revised in 2006.  Another copy, the original from 2004, is included among these materials.  

There are five audio cassette tapes that feature shigin, a form of Japanese poetry that is usually chanted.  These tapes document shigins performed by a man, perhaps an instructor, followed by recitations by students, including Kazu Kamikawa, Donna Omata's maternal grandmother.  Throughout the tapes, the instructor coaches and guides the students.  The tapes are in Japanese.