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Wood block plane used by Otoichi Yamamoto in Japan and in the United states. Single black of wood with metal blade at 45 degree angle. The owner arrived in the United States in 1915. He had been trained in Japan as a woodworker but did not practice commercially in the US. His wife Shigeyo operated a hotel near the Pike Place market until 1941. Otoichi returned to Japan in 1929 where he died. His tools remained with his family in Seattle. His son Yoshimi donated this one. It was brought in by his sister and brother in law, Mary and Mitsuo Nakanishi. After the start of WW II the family was interned at Minidoka and resettled in the midwest, returning only recently.

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