I have rearranged the list of people from Okikamuro who came to Hawaii and other places to work during the Taisho period.
This list was rearranged by me from articles in the magazine "Kamuro" from September 1914 to July 1916. Since it was read by the people involved and editors at the time, it is close to being a primary source, but depending on the issue, names may differ due to printing errors, so some people's names may be incorrect, but please forgive me.
The total number of people is close to 200, but the actual number is thought to be more than four times as many, close to 1,000, including those who were not included, their spouses, and children. Unlike sugarcane field workers in other areas of Oshima County, many of the people who traveled to Hawaii were engaged in unique fishing-related businesses in Okikamuro. This means that many of the people who went to other overseas territories, Korea, and Taiwan also focused on fishing, and created a branch village of the fishing port of Suo-Oshima, Okikamuro. When migrant workers from the mainland (then old Japan) returned home during the Bon and New Year holidays, Okikamuro would literally become "an island that sinks during the Bon and New Year holidays."
Note 1) Only people on the list from 1915 (Taisho 4) have numbers in the No. column. Blanks are people who came after that.
Note 2) Some of the names in kanji may have been misprinted depending on the time period. The names in English are our interpretation and are not correct.
Note 3) The remarks column was collected regardless of the time period. The → in the address indicates a later relocation.
Note 4) Most of the people in the table are probably deceased. If their descendants want to research the people below, they can find out information on their relatives from 1872 onwards by requesting a "revised original family register" from the family register section of the current Suo-Oshima Town Hall, but please note that applicants are limited to direct relatives. Some family trees from before the Meiji Jinshin family register are available at Hakuseiji Temple in Okikamuro, but because it is personal information, only direct relatives may be able to access it. Please contact the head priest. In principle, this is not possible.
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