Title	Kanaye Nagasawa, portrait as a young man
Type of object	Photograph, reproduction
Subject	Utopian colonies Isonaga, Hikosuke Nagasawa, Kanae, 1852-1934 Nagasawa, Kanaye, 1852-1934 Brotherhood of the New Life Kagoshima 15 Kagoshima Fifteen Fountaingrove (Calif.) Fountain Grove (Calif.)
Region	Sonoma County (California)
Description	Kanaye Nagasawa was an influential member of the Fountaingrove community. Kanaye's birth name was Hikosuke Isonaga; he was originally from Kagoshima, Japan and of samurai ancestry. As an adolescent, he was one of the 'Kagoshima Fifteen,' a group of young Japanese that were secretly sent abroad to study Western culture in the 1860's, when Japan was still closed to Western visitors. Nagasawa moved to Santa Rosa with Thomas Lake Harris, founder of Fountaingrove. While here, he expanded upon his talents as a viticulturalist by producing the 'Fountain Grove' wine label. Nagasawa was one of the first Japanese immigrants to the U.S. and an important member of the Japanese American community.
Location ID	085-02-034
Source collection	Gaye LeBaron Collection
Digital collection	Gaye LeBaron Digital Collection
Repository	Sonoma State University Library, Rohnert Park, California
Related resources	Fountaingrove - Photographs (Gaye LeBaron Collection file folder) Fountaingrove - General (Gaye LeBaron Collection file folder) Fountaingrove - History (Gaye LeBaron Collection file folder)
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
File format	Image/jpeg
Digital reproduction	Reproduction of original document scanned at 400 dpi-Displayed in jpeg format at 400 dpi
Date digitized	2012

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Kanaye Nagasawa, portrait as a young man

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