It was the fourth month of the Year of the Serpent, 1869, and a fine spring rain fell softly over the town of Wakamatsu deep in the Bandai-Azuma mountains of Japan.
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Samurai of Gold Hill
by Yoshiko Uchida
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Twelve-year-old Koichi wants to be a samurai like his father but when their clan is defeated in battle, they move to America in 1869 to become farmers. Based on the real-life Wakamatsu colony, founded by exiles from Japan, near Sacramento, California.
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Farm life, Fiction, History, Immigrants, Japanese Americans, Juvenile fiction, Prejudices, Children: Babies Toddlers, Children's fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, California, fictionPlaces
Calif.) Gold Hill (El Dorado County, California, Gold Hill, Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.)Times
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Samurai of Gold Hill
February 1, 1985, Creative Arts Book Company
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Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.
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