[Japanese Americana]

Charter and By-Laws of the Fushiminomiya Kinen Shogakkai [wrapper title]

[Honolulu: 1924]. 6,[2, blank],8pp. Text printed in English and Japanese. Original blue wrappers, stapled, with titles printed in English on front cover and Japanese on rear cover. Slight wear to wrappers, ink initials on rear cover. Very good plus. Item #5592

An apparently unrecorded pamphlet printing the charter and by-laws of the Prince Fushimi Scholarship Society, an organization founded in 1924 by a group of Japanese Americans in Hawaii and intended "to encourage and promote education among boys and girls, and particularly those of Japanese descent, in the Territory of Hawaii" (Article II). The society was named after Prince Fushimi of Japan, a patron of education who donated funds to the group. In 1936, the society donated 4,000 Japanese volumes to the Hawaii Public Library system, a collection which was dismantled during the frenzy of anti-Asian activity during World War II. Interestingly, the text is printed in a variation of the dos-à-dos format, with the same text printed in English beginning at the front and Japanese beginning at the back, with the conclusions of each portion meeting in the middle. Not in OCLC.

Price: $850.00