Arrested: May 1942
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family and others transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
10月 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
10月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 3月 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
3月 1944 - 5月 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
5月 1944 - 1月 1945
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
Returned to Hawaii: April 1946
After nearly eighteen months of Mainland internment, Seikaku Takesono was allowed to transfer to the Jerome Camp in Arkansas, where he was reunited with his wife and daughter, who had entered the incarceration system as a way to reunify the family. Shortly thereafter, the Takesonos were transferred to Tule Lake, where a son, Satoru Jerald, was born.
While Takesono was in Tule Lake, the War Department received information about a letter Takesono had written that indicated "strong pro-Japanese leanings and activities." Based on this letter, Takesono's parole was revoked and he was sent back to Santa Fe in early 1945, shortly after the birth of his son. His wife and children remained in Tule Lake.
After the war, the Takesonos returned to the islands, and Seikaku Takesono served for the next several decades as a Buddhist priest in Kapa'a on Kauai Island and then at the main temple of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission in Honolulu.