A view of Keelung
1 2019-11-18T15:46:56-05:00 Kate McDonald 306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f 35 3 "A VIEW OF KEELUNG HARBOUR, FORMOSA." Image courtesy Special Collections and College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, and the East Asia Image Collection Lafayette College East Asia Image Collection. (http://hdl.handle.net/10385/tb09j637d) plain 2020-09-06T03:12:47-04:00 Hiroko Matsuda HM-0033 Kandra Polatis 4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133This page is referenced by:
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Between Taiwan and Yaeyama
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25.1283, 121.7419
Keelung
24.324769, 124.093849
Taketomi
1936
Hiroko Matsuda
Ara Kinue
Compared to traveling between Okinawa and North and South America, it was far easier to travel between Keelung and Taketomi Island. It took only a day by ferry and Japanese subjects did not need passports to travel between the islands. Thus, it was not unusual for Yaeyama immigrants to go back and forth between Taiwan and their home islands.
Ara Kinue also stayed for a while in Taketomi Island and attended a school when she was about 10 years old.
I had no memory about Taketomi Island, but was raised in Taiwan from the very young age. I was back in Taketomi Island for a while when I was in the third grade of the elementary school. We celebrated the New Year in Taketomi, and I was wearing kimono with obi band in the Japanese-style. Then, kids on the islands curiously looked at me and laughed at me in Japanese-style kimono. Because I was only the third-grade pupil, I was so embarrassed, and could not go out.
Although she was born on Taketomi Island, she was raised as a "Japanese immigrant" in colonial Taiwan since the early age. Thus, going back to her "home island," the local children recognized her as exotic and different from the local people.
