Ofu Heigen no nishiki = Brocade of Sacramento Valley

• Other Authors: Kaihara, Gou (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Sakuranishikisha 1911
• Subjects: Community activities > Nihonmachi ('Japantowns') > Japanese Americans > Identity and values > Issei; Community activities > Nihonmachi ('Japantowns') > Japanese Americans > Identity and values > Issei > Sacramento Valley (Calif.); Japanese Americans; Identity and values > Issei; Community activities > Nihonmachi ('Japantowns'); Sherman Island
• Online Access: https://digitallibrary.californiahistoricalsociety.org/object/22717

Ofu Heigen no nishiki [Brocade of Sacramento Valley] is a 267-page illustrated photo album published by Nichi Bei Times in 1911. The item lacks a title page and cover. The title, "Ofu Heigen no nishiki," is handwritten on the colophon. An English sub-title was provided as: Japanese in California: a pictorial history. The album depicts the Japanese American businesses and families in the agricultural region of the Sacramento Valley, including City of Sacramento, Sacramento Suburbs, Florin, Freeport, Clarksburg, Courtland, Vorden, Walnut Grove, Ryde, Isleton, Sherman Island and Franks Tract, Loomis, Penryn, Newcastle and Auburn, Lodi and Acampo, Marysville and Woodland, Colusa and Red Bluff, Vacaville, and Suisun and Winters. Ofu Heigen no nishiki = Brocade of Sacramento Valley, 1911 September 15; Vault 13061; California Historical Society.