Kanaye Nagasawa

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Kanaye Nagasawa, 1903

Kanaye Nagasawa ( Japanese 長 澤 鼎 , Nagasawa Kanae ; * 1852 in Kagoshima , Japan as Hikosuke Isonaga ( 磯 永 彦 輔 , Isonaga Hikosuke ); † 1934 ) was a Japanese-American winemaker in California . The native Japanese became one of the most important winemakers of his time in California. According to him, the approximately 13 hectares large Nagasawa Community Park in Santa Rosa named. Nagasawa is believed to be the first Japanese to settle in the United States.

Life

Hikosuke was born the son of a samurai of the Japanese Shimazu clan . In order to be prepared for the impending change in Japanese foreign policy under the Tokugawa , he and 14 other young men were sent to study in Scotland by the head of the Shimazu clan in 1864 under the code name Kanaye Nagasawa. Here he met Thomas Lake Harris , a charismatic preacher and prophet who promoted life in spiritual communities. Nagasawa was one of the first Japanese to travel to New York in the 1860s to live with Harris in his commune The Brotherhood of the New Life on the shores of Lake Erie in the United States. From here he briefly attended Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . In 1870 Harris decided to start another commune in Santa Rosa , California . One of the members of the New York Commune who accompanied him was Nagasawa, who settled here.

Harris had acquired 320 acres of land in Santa Rosa to produce wine; Over time, the property, Fountain Grove , could be expanded to around 800 hectares. Nagasawa was responsible for the viticulture. After Harris moved from Santa Rosa, the property fell to Nagasawa. He developed Fountain Grove into one of the most important wine producers in the United States, and under him Californian wines were exported to Europe and Japan for the first time. In public he was known as a baron or prince, abroad and abroad because of his samurai origins. a. referred to as the "Wine King" of California. Nagasawa died childless in 1934. He left his property to a nephew, part of which was initially taken over by a trustee due to the 1913 Alien Land Law for California, and in 1942 the heirs were expropriated without compensation.

Nagasawa was the builder of the Fountaingrove Round Barn , a Santa Rosa landmark that burned down in 2017. In 1915 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun excellent. In 2007 the park in the Santa Rosa district of Fountaingrove was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 'Prince' kanaye nagasawa, first japanese in sr, honored with park , July 29, 2007, The Press Democrat (in English)
  2. ↑ a b Debra A. Klein, Nagaswa: The Grape King from Shogun Japan , March 4, 2014, thedailybeast.com (in English)
  3. ↑ Fountaingrove: Santa Rosa's Utopian Experiment ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.sonoma.edu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sanoma State University Library (in English)
personal data
SURNAME Nagasawa, Kanaye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 澤 鼎 (Japanese); Nagasawa Kanae; Isonaga Hikosuke (maiden name); 磯 永 彦 輔 (Japanese, maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-American winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Kagoshima , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 1934