Wooden abacus (soroban) used by the Nakano family prior to World War II. Asataro Nakano and Misao Gyotoku Nakano immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. They settled in West Sacramento where they purchased land to farm. Their three children...
Trophy reads "Consul General Kaname Wakasugi Trophy, High School Oratorical Contest, Sponsored by The Japanese Students Club of The University of California, 1933." The following names are listed on the back: "Florin Epworth League: Mary Tsuruko...
Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Basket making [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center [lcna]; Found objects (Art) [lcsh];
Mrs. Kurosawa wrapped crepe paper around thin wire and wove it into a basket then shellacked it.
Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Woodwork [lcsh]; Found objects (Art) [lcsh];
Made in an internment camp. The arts and crafts program was one of the most successful of all the camp activities. The internees created the items from scraps of wood, waste items and bits from nature. They also made their own brushes, paints, and...
Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center -- Pictorial works [lcna]; Painting [lcsh]; Prisoners as artists [lcsh]; Barracks [lcsh];
Charles Mikami was born in Hiroshima, Japan 1901, and began studying sumi-e painting at the age of fourteen. In 1919 he immigrated to Seattle. He and his family were interned first in Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz. During incarceration,...
Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Japan -- Emigration and immigration [lcsh]; Kimonos [lcsh];
Japanese women store their kimonos in a kori. This suitcase was used by an immigrant from Japan to the United States and then taken to an internment camp.
Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh];
Trunk made for Mr. and Mrs. Yuichi Mitani from scrap lumber and discarded crates at Topaz Relocation Center, Utah. It was used to move their belongings back to the Bay Area during resettlement.
Japanese Americans -- California -- Florin [lcsh]; Taniguchi, Masao [aacr2]; Japanese American farmers [lcsh]; Clothing and dress [lcsh];
This sunbonnet was worn by Mrs. Masao Taniguchi. It was a common and pratical accessory worn by Japanese American women farming in the Florin area before WWII.
Japanese American art [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.) -- Pictorial works [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Prisoners as artists [lcsh]; Barracks [lcsh];
Made in Viola Kerber's art class, circa 1943/44, Camp II, High School, Poston Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona.
Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Kabuki music [lcsh]; Shamisen [lcsh];
The shamisen is the principle instrument of Kabuki theatre. It is a three-stringed, fretless instrument. The genres of music played by shamisen players is nagauta, or long song, and jojuri, named after a singing style in puppet plays. Jojuri is...
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Tango no sekku [aacr2];
Boys' Day Festival (Tango-no-Sekku) is observed annually on May 5th to celebrate the healthy growth and development of young boys. On this day, the Japanese take iris-scented baths, sip iris wine, and stick iris leaves on the roof. The iris is...
Japanese American business enterprises -- California -- Florin [lcsh]; Fan painting, Japanese [lcsh]; Advertisements [lcsh]; Tanikawa Mercantile Store [lcna];
T. Tanikawa Co. was a mercantile store on the corner of Reese and Florin Roads in Florin, California. The fan was made in Japan and used prior to World War II.
Gila River Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration Camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Wood-carving [lcsh]
Vase and matching base made at Gila River Relocation Center from an ironwood tree branch.
