Digital Collections

- Hoes.
- Agricultural implements [lcsh];
- Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Handmade Grandmother (Bachan's) Doll.
- Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Craft, Charlotte [aacr2]; Dolls [lcsh];
- This handmade doll was made by a student's grandmother for Charlotte Craft. Charlotte Craft taught second and third grade at Tule Lake Relocation Center.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Stand for noble person's teabowl
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- The stand is for a noble person's teabowl (kinindai).
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Miniture wooden horse with box.
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Talismans [lcsh];
- Horse is a good luck charm for raising children and fertility in couples.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Miniture gold and silver orgami drum with red string and tassels.
- Decorative arts [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Univex Mercury II camera with leather case and strap.
- Cameras [lcsh]
- 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
- Western States Life Insurance Company promotional bank.
- Japanese American business enterprises -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Advertisements [lcsh];
- Promotional item from Western States Life Insurance Company, San Francisco. Stamped on front: "Compliments of I. Sugiyama".
- 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
- Ink box for Sumi-e painting.
- Tsuruda, Yoshio Harry [aacr2];
- Ink box with wood cover owned by Yoshio Harry Tsuruda for Sumi-e painting and calligraphy.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Silver engraved baseball charm in original box.
- Concentration camps -- Colorado [lcsh]; Granada Relocation Center [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Baseball -- Awards [lcsh];
- Silver, engraved baseball charm with "M" won by George Nakano, 1943, in Granada Relocation Center. Possibly won at Merced Detention Center in 1942 and presented at Granada.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden abacus.
- Abacus [lcsh]
- 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...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wood carving of bombs.
- Asian American artists [lcsh]; Tsuruda, Yoshio Harry [aacr2]; Wood-carving [lcsh];
- Most likely made by Harry Tsuruda.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden recipe box.
- Woodwork [lcsh]; Uyemura, George [aacr2]; High school students [lcsh];
- Recipe box made by George Uyemura for his sister Mildred in junior high or high school shop class. Most likely made pre-World War II.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden puzzle box with painting of Mount Fuji.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Tsukamoto, Ito [aacr2];
- This box was brought from Japan by Ito Tsukamoto on her last visit in 1934.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Racoon kokeshi doll.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Folk art -- Japan [lcsh]; Toys [lcsh]; Kokeshi dolls [lcsh]
- Racoon has accounting book in hand that symbolizes business. Kokeshi are traditional Japanese folk dolls made of wheel-turned wood, consisting of a head and body with no limbs. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are painted to give...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Princess daruma doll.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Bodhidharma dolls [lcsh]; Folk art -- Japan [lcsh]
- Daruma is the Japanese name for Bodhidharma. Daruma dolls (or wish dolls) are good luck charms in the Japanese culture. Typically, the eyes are not painted in until one makes a wish or sets a goal then one eye is painted in. When the wish or goal...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Red cow toy with bobbing head.
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Talismans [lcsh];
- Good luck charm for those born in the year of the cow.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Container shaped in likeness of sandal decorated with blue, green and yellow butterflies.
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Decorative arts [lcsh]; Ornamental boxes [lcsh]
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Kappa doll lying on its stomach.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Dolls [lcsh]; Mythology, Japanese [lcsh]
- The Kappa is known as the river goblin. It is said to cause swimming children to drown and to challenge people to sumo wrestling. It is also believed that horses or cattle that go into a river to drink or bathe are pulled into the water by the...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase