¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sansei
1. a grandchild of Japanese immigrants to the United States [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sansei
Literary usage of Sansei
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"sansei also has noodle dishes, salads and seafood entrées, such as seafood ...
sansei has laser karaoke every Thursday and Friday from 10 pm to closing. ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1906)
"Ogura sansei was the earliest and eldest of his disciples, to be followed very
shortly by Nonaka Kenzan, a man with a spirit as enterprising and daring as ..."
3. Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"... the very finest of their kind — ever produced in Japan were turned out by a
group of experts working in combination under the firm-name "sansei-sha. ..."
4. Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"After Ninsei the greatest name connected with the Awata factory is that of Ogata
sansei, whose artist name was Kenzan. Ogata was born at Narutaki- mura, ..."
5. Writing America edited by Keith Donohue (2001)
"... of a sansei I am a sansei,a third-generation Japanese-American. In 1984,
through luck and through some skills as a poet, I traveled to Japan. ..."
6. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing by Ginny Moore Kruse, Kathleen T. Horning (1991)
"As a child in the generation born after the war, or sansei, Hamanaka and most
other Americans—sansei and non-sansei alike, were unaware that 120000 American ..."
7. Adventure Guide to Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"sansei also has noodle dishes, salads and seafood entrées, such as seafood ...
sansei has laser karaoke every Thursday and Friday from 10 pm to closing. ..."
8. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1906)
"Ogura sansei was the earliest and eldest of his disciples, to be followed very
shortly by Nonaka Kenzan, a man with a spirit as enterprising and daring as ..."
9. Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"... the very finest of their kind — ever produced in Japan were turned out by a
group of experts working in combination under the firm-name "sansei-sha. ..."
10. Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"After Ninsei the greatest name connected with the Awata factory is that of Ogata
sansei, whose artist name was Kenzan. Ogata was born at Narutaki- mura, ..."
11. Writing America edited by Keith Donohue (2001)
"... of a sansei I am a sansei,a third-generation Japanese-American. In 1984,
through luck and through some skills as a poet, I traveled to Japan. ..."
12. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing by Ginny Moore Kruse, Kathleen T. Horning (1991)
"As a child in the generation born after the war, or sansei, Hamanaka and most
other Americans—sansei and non-sansei alike, were unaware that 120000 American ..."
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