Growing a Community: Pioneers of the Japanese American Floral Industry

Resources

Additional information on the Japanese floral industry can be found at the following sites and publications:

Other sites

• The Contra Costa JACL produced the film, Blossoms and Thorns, about Richmond flower growers:
  • Blossoms and Thorns
  • Blossoms and Thorns on Facebook
• The El Cerrito Historical Society produced a commemorative book about the Richmond/El Cerrito area Japanese flower growers:
  • Remembering our Local Japanese Heritage
• Preserving California Japantowns:
  • http://www.californiajapantowns.org/index.html
• Bay Area Japanese businesses, including nurseries and florists, are mapped at Japantown Atlas:
  • http://www.japantownatlas.com/
• Toichi Domoto, one of the pioneering Domoto family of nurserymen, was interviewed in 1992 about his life in floriculture:
  • Toichi Domoto – A Japanese-American nurseryman’s life in California: floriculture and family, 1883-1992

Publications

• Living with Flowers: The California Flower Market History, by Gary Kawaguchi
• Across Two Worlds, Memoirs of a Nisei Flower Grower, by Yoshimi Shibata
• A Scent of Flowers: The History of the Southern California Flower Market, 1912–2004, by Naomi Hirahara