Kanaye Nagasawa (né Isonaga Hikosuke; February 2, 1852 – February 14, 1934) was an American winemaker in California, the first former Japanese national to live permanently[1] in the United States, a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun,[2] and a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris, the self-proclaimed "Father and Pivot and Primate and King of the Brotherhood of the New Life".

[2] At age 12 or 13, he was one of 15 Satsuma students smuggled out of Japan and sent to the United Kingdom to learn Western customs, technology and systems.

[4] Nagasawa, being too young for university, was sent to Aberdeen, Scotland, to live with the family of Thomas Blake Glover and attend school.

In Scotland, he met English nobleman Laurence Oliphant, who was a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris and had been asked to find potential recruits for his New York State commune.

Harris brought winemaker Dr. John Hyde to the property to plant grapes and instruct the disciples in viticulture.

Nagasawa became winemaker after Hyde left, and made wine for the Brotherhood of the New Life's store in New York City as well as for the British Isles.

Harris left Fountain Grove in 1891, though, after journalist Alzire Chevaillier wrote several articles for the San Francisco Chronicle saying that the commune leader was a charlatan.