Digital Collections

- Softball signed by players.
- Concentration camps -- Arkansas [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) [aacr2]; Baseball -- Awards [lcsh]; Japanese American baseball players -- Arkansas [lcsh];
- Writing on softball reads: "B-O Champions 1944 Old Men Soft B. League Denson ARK."
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Girl's leather button-up shoes.
- Clothing and dress [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh];
- Worn by daughter of Japanese American farmers from West Sacramento.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Shogi game pieces and box.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Shogi [lcsh];
- Wooden box contains forty-one shogi pieces. Shogi is a Japanese board game played by two players. The object of the game is to capture the opponent's King. Shogi is played on a nine-by-nine board and each player has twenty pieces. Shogi is much...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Tea whisk and sheath
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Implements, utensils, etc. [lcsh]
- When transporting utensils to the site of an outdoor tea gathering, the tea whisk (chasen) is stored in a lacquered wooden sheath (chasenzutsu) inside of the tea utensil box (chabako). It is removed from the sheath during the tea procedure and used...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Preparing to move from Jerome to Rohwer Relocation Center.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- Arkansas [lcsh]; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) [aacr2]; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh];
- When Jerome Relocation Center was closed, internees had to decide where to relocate. Internees in Jerome Relocation Center, block 11, barrack 2, room D are shown here preparing to move to Rohwer Relocation Center, about 40 miles away. Note all...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Leather wallet with Tule Lake Relocation Center sketch on cover.
- Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Leatherwork [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center -- Pictorial works [lcsh];
- Wallet made by Ronald Tutomi at Tule Lake Relocation Center.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Viola Sadako Nakano, Geraldine Setsuka Nakano and George Asato Nakano, Jr. in the Japanese garden at Granada Relocation Center.
- Japanese American children [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Granada Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- Colorado [lcsh]; Japanese American families [lcsh]; Gardens, Japanese [lcsh]; Nakano,...
- Viola Sadako Nakano is second cousin to the children. Photograph from the Nakano family album. Asataro Nakano and Misao Gyotoku Nakano immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. They settled in West Sacramento where they purchased land to farm....
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Ironwood vase and base.
- 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.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Gold metal cup.
- Japanese Americans -- Religion [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Buddhism -- Customs and practices [lcsh];
- Used for offering rice for Buddhist home alter.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Pair of mary jane style baby shoes.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh]; Clothing and dress [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh];
- Used by the Ota family during internment.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Pair of baby shoes.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh]; Clothing and dress [lcsh];
- Used by the Ota family during internment.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Leather sharpening strap.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Yuba City [lcsh]; Ota, Iwao Joe [aacr2]; Barbershops -- Equipment and supplies [lcsh];
- Used by Ota family prior to World War II in Colusa, California barber shop. Before the war, Joe Iwao Ota was a barber as was his father, Tomitaro Ota. Joe retired ca. 1982.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Twenty two inch leather sharpening strap
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Yuba City [lcsh]; Ota, Iwao Joe [aacr2]; Barbershops -- Equipment and supplies [lcsh];
- Used by Ota family prior to World War II in Colusa, California barber shop. Before the war, Joe Iwao Ota was a barber as was his father, Tomitaro Ota. Joe retired ca. 1982.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Yellow bristle brush.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Yuba City [lcsh]; Ota, Iwao Joe [aacr2]; Barbershops -- Equipment and supplies [lcsh];
- Used by Ota family prior to World War II in Colusa, California barber shop. Before the war, Joe Iwao Ota was a barber as was his father, Tomitaro Ota. Joe retired ca. 1982.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sharpening stone.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Yuba City [lcsh]; Ota, Iwao Joe [aacr2]; Barbershops -- Equipment and supplies [lcsh];
- Used by Ota family prior to World War II in Colusa, California barber shop. Before the war, Joe Iwao Ota was a barber as was his father, Tomitaro Ota. Joe retired ca. 1982.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Metal ladle.
- Concentration camps -- United States [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Kitchen utensils [lcsh];
- Used by a Japanese American family during internment.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Tea caddy for thin tea with cherry, maple, and flowing water motif
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Unkin literally means "clouds and brocade." This phrase likens cherry blossoms to clouds and colored maples leaves to brocade. Elements of another much loved motif, hana ikada or flowers drifting downstream on a raft, also appear. Both these motifs...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Three women sitting on grass at Poston II Relocation Center.
- Concentration Camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Japanese American women [lcsh]; Imoto, Kiyoko [aacr2]; Hayashi, Jane [aacr2]; Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.) [lcna];
- Two women identified: Kiyoko Imoto and Jane Hayashi.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Two charm pouches.
- Japanese Americans -- Religion [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Buddhism -- Customs and practices [lcsh]; Household shrines,...
- Two gold charms inside pouches. Located in the first drawer of the Butsudan (Buddhist family altar). The Butsudan was handmade by the Kato family while interned at Tule Lake Relocation Center. Butsudans are dedicated to the Dai-Mandala (the object...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Shell gardenia pin.
- Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center [lcna]; Jewelry [lcsh];
- Tule Lake Relocation Center and Topaz Relocation Center were on or near shell beds. When the surface supply of good shells was eventually exhausted, the internees dug for them in beds from one to four feet below the ground. After gathering,...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase