Okei-san: The Girl from Wakamatsu
This version available in paperback
Updated version — Okei-san: A Girl’s Journey, Japan to California, 1868-1871 — available Fall 2009
In 1869 a small group of Japanese came to California to establish a tea and silk colony. In that group was nineteen-year-old Okei, and through her eyes we see an often-forgotten episode in history: the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony in Gold Hill, California, during 1869-1871.
Okei-san: The Girl from Wakamatsu
by Joan Barton Barsotti
Illustrated by Alpen Kelley
86 pages, 23 illustrations, map, glossary, bibliography
ISBN 978-0-9642112-8-5 (Paperback) $11.95