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Buddhist priests from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, April 1944. Bottom row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi, Rev. Hozui Nakayama, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Enryo Shigefuji (Fresno, Calif.), Bishop Ninryo Nago, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama, Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Yutetsu Matsui, unknown, unknown, Rev. Doro Kanda. Middle row: Rev. Dojin Ochi (Los Angeles), Rev. Ryuko Tachibana (Los Angeles, formerly of Hawaii), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri, Rev. Gendo Okawa, Rev. Suijo Kabashima, Rev. Tenran Mori, unknown, Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Hakuai Oda, Rev. Taizen Imamura, Rev. Hosho Kurohira, Rev. Shunjo Shiratori, Rev. Bunpo Kuwatsuki (Los Angeles), unknown, Rev. Shodo Kawamura. Top row: Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato, Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, unknown, Rev. Kenju Ohtomo, unknown, Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba, Zenko Saigusa, Rev. Kodo Fujitani, Rev. Kenjo Ohara, Rev. Giko Abiko (Calif.), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi, unknown. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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In front of an altar, Santa Fe Internment Camp. 1st Row (L-R): Aisuke Shigekuni (4th), Yoshio Koike (6th). 3rd Row: Josen Deme (2nd), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba (5th), Chikyoku Kikuchi (6th), Rev. Konin Matano (7th), Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (8th); Rev. Hakuai Oda (9th); Rev. Kodo Fujitani (10th). 4th Row: Bishop Ninryo Nago (5th), Rev. Suijo Kabashima (6th), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (8th). 5th Row: Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Rev. Shoho Fujiie (5th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (6th), Rev. Teizen Imamura (7th). Back Row: Koichi Iida (11th), Daizo Sumida (12th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (2nd), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (5th), Rev. Zenko Saigusa (6th). Row 2: Kazuyuki Kawano (2nd), Takeo Seike (3rd), Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (4th), Mankichi Miura (5th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Rev. Kenjyo Ohara (8th), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri (9th). Row 3: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd, with tie), Hirouemon Yamamoto (4th), Tsuruichi Sarae (6th), Rev. Tenran Mori (7th), Sukenoshin Nakano (1st fr R). Row 4: Riuichi Ipponsugi (2nd). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Fourth Transfer Group: June 1942

This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan. 

Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942 - July 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

July 1942 - March 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

March 1943 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

Brothers Zenkai and Goki Tatsuguchi came to Honolulu in the 1920s as missionaries of the independent Shinshu Kyokai Buddhist Mission. In the 1930s, a dispute errupted among the mission faithful, and the Tatsuguchis found themselves on opposing sides of the religious schism. After the war, Zenkai Tatsuguchi returned to Honolulu, where he continued in religious service.