Kobayashi House
UHCL Archives, Lauren Meyers
Archives Exhibits, Presentations, and Materials - Clear Lake Area History Files, Kobayashi-Saibara, University of Houston Clear-Lake Archives
July 2013
Saibara Homestead and Rice Farm Historical Marker
UHCL Archives, Lauren Meyers
Archives Exhibits, Presentations, and Materials - Clear Lake Area History Files, Kobayashi-Saibara, University of Houston Clear-Lake Archives
July 2013
Saibara Homestead and Rice Farm
UHCL Archives, Lauren Meyers
Archives Exhibits, Presentations, and Materials - Clear Lake Area History Files, Kobayashi-Saibara, University of Houston Clear-Lake Archives
July 2013
Mitsutaro Kobayashi
Mitsutaro Kobayashi, left, arrived in the Clear Lake area around 1906 and initially worked for local settler and agriculturist Seito Saibara. He eventually bought land and planted vegetables and Satsuma oranges. Much of the Kobayashi farm land was sold to developers and is now retail/commercial buildings.
Clear Lake Heritage Society Book Records, #2011-0003, University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives
Bay Area Museum
Seito Saibara
Seito Saibara was an agriculturist, lawyer, university president, and member of the Japanese Parliament. Saibara arrived in Hartford Connecticut in 1901 to study theology and teach the Japanese about Christianity but in 1903, the Houston Chamber of Commerce invited him to the area to advise farmers on rice cultivation. He arrived in Webster, Texas with his family and thirty colonists, established the first Japanese Christian colony in Texas, and planted Japanese strains of rice with higher yields than American rice.
Clear Lake Heritage Society Book Records, #2011-0003, University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives
Bay Area Museum
Saibara Home
Clear Lake Heritage Society Book Records, #2011-0003, University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives
c. 1927