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For over ninety years, the Miura family ran the iconic H. Miura Store. Husakichi Miura emigrated from Yamaguchi, Japan in the late 1800s to work on the sugar plantation. Learning to sew from his seamstress wife Moto, he moonlighted as a tailor, selling work clothes to fellow plantation laborers. The Miuras opened their first tailor shop and dry goods store in 1912. Their customers included Queen Lili‘uokalani for whom Moto sewed traditional holokū gowns. After a fire destroyed the shop in 1918, the Miuras built their family store in this building. Miuras initially carried Edwardian formal attire, but in the 1960s, the store became famous for its custom-made surf shorts sewn by Miura sisters Jane Oda and Katherine Kawaguchi. Fourth generation Steven Oda joined the business in 1988. In 2005 the Miura sisters, then in their 80s, retired and the property was sold to the Morioka family in 2006. (Historic Signage Project of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce – actual plaque language.)