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Kamizono’s billiard saloon

Kamizono’s billiard saloon

Arriving in 1915, Morinosuke Kamizono was one of the first Japanese immigrants to settle in New Zealand. He married Hine Wanoa of Ngāti Porou and moved to the East Cape town of Te Araroa. The couple owned the Star billiard saloon, pictured here, until 1938, and also ran a barber’s business.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, George Garland Newell Collection (PAColl-4821)

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Tessa Copland, Japanese – Contact 1900–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1236/kamizonos-billiard-saloon (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tessa Copland, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.

Comments

Denise Kamizona (Kamizono)
02 April 2012
My Great Grandfather Morinosuke Kamizono married Heni Wanoa, not Hine Wanoa, please edit so future generations have the name correct, thanks