print email comment close Yamada (Mitsuye) Papers URL: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5d5nb2wc Description: Poet Mitsuye Yamada was born Mitsuye May Yasutake in Japan; at the age of 3, she emigrated to the United States with her parents and grew up in Seattle. When World War II began she was relocated to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho. This site describes the collection of her papers at the Special Collections and Archives of the University of California, Irvine, libraries and provides a biography and chronology of her life. Publisher: Online Archives of California; California Digital Library Extra Keywords notablepoets Library of Congress Subject Headings: Japanese American authors People Poetry, Modern Women political activists -- United States Yamada, Mitsuye LII Database Information: Record 2013 created by Margaret Myhre on 07/02/2003 Last modification on 08/04/2005 Published: 07/02/2003   Funding agency: Washington State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2013