| \n Name\n | \n\n Katsuichi Satow\n | \n
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| \n Born\n | \n\n November 15 1896\n | \n
| \n Died\n | \n\n July 14 1992\n | \n
| \n Birth Location\n | \n\n Wakayama, Japan\n | \n
| \n Generational Identifier\n | \n\n \n \n Issei\n \n \n | \n
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\n Katsuichi Satow (1896-1992) was a Presbyterian minister who first came to the US as a missionary and went to serve numerous churches across the country. During World War II, he painted watercolors and kept detailed diaries throughout his internment at\n \n Santa Fe\n \n internment camp and incarceration at\n \n Gila River\n \n in Arizona. He was born on November 15, 1896, in Wakayama, Japan, and immigrated to the United States as a missionary student in 1926, settling first in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In 1928, he married Yone Kawai in Weber, Utah and the couple had a son, Symon and daughter, Hiroko. From 1931-41, he served as a pastor and Japanese language teacher in congregational churches in Coachella, San Diego, and\n \n Terminal Island\n \n , California.\n
\n Reverend Satow was the pastor at the Japanese Congregational Church in Pasadena, California, in 1942, when the war broke out, forcing his family into the camp at Gila River, Arizona. Reverend Satow was initially taken into custody and sent to an internment camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before he was reunited with his family in Arizona. Throughout the war, he kept a group of diaries in Japanese about his experience (from 1943-44). In addition, he painted watercolors and helped develop educational and study materials for the public schools while in camp.\n
\n\n After the war, he served as pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, where his wife was active with church activities and with the Cleveland Red Cross. They couple later moved in Waimea, Kaua'i, where Satow continued to minister. In 1990, the then 93-year-old Satow was among a group of four former inmates who were the first in Hawaii to receive a governmental apology and reparations checks under the provisions of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.\n \n \n [1]\n \n \n
\n\n He died on July 14, 1992, in Honolulu, Hawai'i.\n
\n \n \n\n \n Katsuichi Satow papers finding aid, 1938-1979\n \n . Duke University.\n
\n\n \n The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945\n \n . Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992.\n
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