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The Imahara family monument in St. Francisville. (Photo provided by Walter Imahara)

By WALTER IMAHARA, Special to The Rafu

From Hiroshima to Louisiana: This is a story of a monument that survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, 75 years ago. The power of the atomic bomb was so great that the city of Hiroshima was destroyed.

In 1977, when my father and I visited Japan for the first time, we found the Imahara family monument at the Zenkyoji Temple on the outskirts of Hiroshima. Amazing…the monument and the temple were not destroyed; the area was protected by the hills.

Though the monument resembles a tombstone, it is a sacred family stone sculpture.

The Imahara family monument in Hiroshima. (Photo provided by Walter Imahara)

On a more recent family trip to Japan in 2015, my wife Sumi and I found that our family monument had no damage from the A-bomb. We approached the Buddhist priest about the possibility of removing the monument and shipping it to the U.S., as in Japan, such a monument is the property of the Buddhist temple and not the family. The initial talks were very positive, and we began planning the relocation of the monument to America.

After speaking to the Buddhist priest again, we made arrangements to ship the monument to Louisiana. The monument went from Hiroshima to Los Angeles to Houston, then by truck to Imahara’s Landscape Co. in Baton Rouge.

On Sept. 20, 2019, after its 7,000-mile trip, we placed the Imahara monument facing west, toward Japan, at Imahara’s Garden, Hemingbough, in St. Francisville, La. An azalea group planting is arranged so that the monument is in front of the 45-acre lake near the red torii gate, which “marks the boundary between the material outside world and the sacred space of the shrine.” (www.japan-experience.com)

My great-grandfather, Sobee Imahara, had a fourth son, Sagoro, who was born May 2, 1863, and died Feb. 3, 1895. The story is that Sobee built the monument in Hiroshima to honor Saguro. The writing on the monument was translated by Yoshinori Kamo, Ph.D., LSU:

Front side. “Grave of Everyone in the Imahara Family (past and future).”

Left side: “June 17, 1901. To commemorate the posthumous awarding of a medal.”

Right side: “May 5, 1884. Saguro started from a seaman junior apprentice. He was promoted to a first-class seaman. He received good conduct stripes and eventually received and was allowed to wear an imperial shoulder award for rescue. Afterward, he was assigned to be a crew member of the cruiser Tshkuski. Sagoro Imahara died in honor in the attack in Weihaiwei, China, on Feb. 3, 1895.”

The red torii at a Hemingbough pathway that leads to the Imahara family monument, which Walter Imahara placed “facing west, toward Japan.” (Photo by Patricia Stallman)

The Imahara family story started in Hiroshima. My great-grandfather had another son, my grandfather, Minezo Imahara, who was born in 1857 and came to America in 1895, seeking a new horizon and golden opportunities. His journey brought him first to Hawaii, then to Guatemala, to Mexico, and to Watsonville. Minezo worked for James Redmond, farming sugar beets and apple crops. Minezo’s parents selected a picture bride from Hiroshima by the name of Mika Nishita.

In 2014: Walter Imahara at the 54-acre Imahara Botanical Gardens in St. Francisville, which closed in 2018. (Photo by Nalini Raghavan, from an online source)

My father was the first born in the Imahara family in America. James Masaru Imahara, born 1903, thus became the second generation, called Nisei.

Then: Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

My grandfather, Minezo, and my grandmother, Mika, passed before the family went into the infamous internment camp. My father and his family went into the internment camp from 1942 to 1945. I was 4 years old.

We spent three and a half years in an American concentration camp behind barbed wire.

My father, James, is noted for the restoration of the Afton Villa Gardens from 1948 to 1951 in St. Francisville. The Imaharas now own a landscape company in Baton Rouge.

In 2018, we built the new Japanese American garden at Hemingbough, Imahara’s Legacy Garden, to honor our parents. The new stroll gardens are open to the public.

The family plans to create, as well, a museum at Hemingbough similar to the family museum at the 54-acrea Imahara Botanical Gardens on Tunica Road below Catholic Hill, which we closed at the end of April in 2018.

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