No.19 (March 22, 1912)
Cranbrook No single interior cave site has not been affected by the change in the past two, three years, but among them the case of Cranbrook is particularly remarkable. Back in 1908, Cranbrook had Jirō Hashimoto’s prostitute cave with Oshichi and Omine; his, so-called, cave no.2 had Higashi’s Osuma, Oka’s Okimi, Miyagi’s Oiwa; his cave […]
No.20 (Missing)
No. 20 is missing from UBC’s Tairiku Nippō Open Collection. The following story is retrieved from Brothels in Canada (Tairiku Nippō, 1909). Currently in Edmonton is devil Toraji Asami and in Winnipeg is Saburō Tanabe at 124 Pacific Avenue, running a teahouse secretly as a brothel. I wrote about this long ago so I will […]
No.20 (March 23, 1912)
The first one to launch the construction of new houses was Jirō Hashimoto, who then had cash in the amount of $3,000 in his hand. He built only one house first and then another one next. The next person was Sugabe’s Osachi, who was followed by Shozo Tsukino; both of them invested $1,200 to $1,300. […]
No.21 (December 12, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) There is a town called Wakuya-cho eight miles away from Sendai. More specifically speaking, it is Wakuya-cho, Toda-gun, Rikuzen’nokuni, Miyagi Prefecture, and this is Satō’s hometown. It is a small town with a population of only 1,500 or 1,600. There is Wakuya-cho Elementary School and a teacher called Kunio Fujita. […]
No.21 (March 25, 1912)
There is no smoke without fire. After Oshige returned to Japan a rumor related to Matsumoto quickly spread in the interior. It had to with Sugabe’s Osachi. As I wrote in the previous series, Osachi was in the company of Sugabe, whose first name I do not know of. Sugabe, when he returned to Japan […]
No.22 (December 14, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) I have already described how Takeshi Satō pioneered the caves in Saskatoon. He was running a western restaurant in Nelson for a short period of time before he moved to Seattle a few years ago. Then he disappeared without clearing up his debt to a wholesale store, which led to […]
No.22 (March 26, 1912)
Oshige’s return did not terminate the relationship between Osachi and Matsumoto so easily. Both felt urgency to solve their problem in some way, but they did not come up with a good idea immediately. Osachi visited Matsumoto. There was no problem her visiting him but the time was bad, and what she said was bad. […]
No.23 (December 15, 1908)
Attitude of Police Authority Caves exist almost everywhere east of Vancouver but of course they cannot sustain their operations without any negotiation with police authority. Then what kind of attitude does police have toward those caves? Indeed, police never fail to keep their bird eyes on them but, oddly enough, each town has a different […]
No.23 (March 27, 1912)
The deal was done, and Matsumoto had to drag his two old houses out to the new cave district. Of course, this required cash for labourers. He hired some workers for four dollars per person per day. However, his judgment was proven wrong and his houses did not move easily. Unfortunately, the two houses came […]
No.24 (December 16, 1908)
Attitude of Police Authority (cont’d) This is a ridiculous thing, but Nelson caves receive the best police care. All police have to look after caves but in Nelson police take care of them willingly. To “take care” may not be an appropriate way of describing it but it is a firm fact that the police […]