under Hanayagi Rokumine Remembrances.

pollution from a near-by gold mine and a lack of water caused the crops to wither.This was the first time that the descendants of the two families had met.

a descendant of Oto Matsugoro.great-grandson of Matsugoro and Miwa Oto.but their connection was not limited to the Wakamatsu Colony.

The descendants of Sakichi Yanagisawa and his wife Nami.who share the same history about their ancestors.

prays at the grave of Sakichi Yanagisawa grave last October in Tokyo.

Yanagisawa was a resident of the Wakamatsu Colony.That discovery coincided with a Hokusai wave of interest in Japanese pop culture in the early 2000s.

In samurai or vigilante films.While many Americans imagine samurai as historical truth.

Students know more than I do about the latest shows.a professor of Japanese Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.