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 tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh];
Winter hearth (okiro) designed to be used in circumstances when the ro cannot be set flush in the tatami floor. It is placed in the same position within the tearoom as the sunken hearth but stands on top of the tatami.
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...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
When a cold water jar (mizusashi) sits on a utensil stand, it is left in the tearoom at the end of the temae. A water replacement pitcher is used to replenish the cold water jar at that time. The Katakuchi shape of this piece is more commonly...
Japanese American art [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.) -- Pictorial works [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Watercolor painting [lcsh]; Prisoners as...
Watercolor by Harry Yoshizumi depicting boy in front of Poston Relocation Center barracks and latrines. In the foreground is a telephone pole and a trash can. The artist signed his name on the trash can lid. Harry Yoshizumi studied art in...
Tsukamoto, Walter [aacr2]; Lawyers -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Japanese American business enterprises -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; University of California, Berkeley. School of...
Walter Tsukamoto pictured at his law office at 4th and M Streets, 1930 (Japan Town?). In 1931, Walter Tsukamoto organized the Sacramento Chapter, JACL (Japanese American Citizens League) and served as its president until 1936. He was elected JACL...
Tsukamoto, Walter [aacr2]; Japanese American families [lcsh]; Automobiles [lcsh];
Walter Tsukamoto and his father sit in front of car and his mother and siblings are in the back. In 1931, Walter Tsukamoto organized the Sacramento Chapter, JACL (Japanese American Citizens League) and served as its president until 1936. He was...
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....
Two small wooden boards (kizue) to be used in specific chabako procedures. The long board is used in the autumnal chabako dedicated to the moon (tsuki) and the single panel is used for the chabako known as wakei.
Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Weddings [lcsh];
Tule Lake Directory reads (p. 233) "Miss May Asai, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shohei Asai, was married to Hachiro Shinbo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hachiemon Shinbo on Saturday, August 28, with Rev. Naito officiating. Miss Asai who is a R.N. at the Base...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh];Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh];Scoops [lcsh]
Three tea scoops, two in the semi-formal (gyo) style with the bamboo node at the tip of the scoop, and one in the informal (so) style with the bamboo node falling in the middle of the scoop. The latter has been carved in a style reminiscent of the...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
This unlacquered paulownia box is designed to hold both a ceramic caddy for thick tea (chaire) and lacquered caddy for thick tea (natsume) for the satsubako tea procedure (temae), one of a set of four orally transmitted temae. When a guest...
This style of tray, known as a hanagatabon or flower-shaped tray, is designed for use in the hana (flower) temae, a chabako tea procedure for the spring season. The red-lacquered edges of this tray suggest stylized petals, and the center of the...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Trays -- Japan [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh];
This square try (yohoubon) is one of a smaller size used when a utensil, such as a thick tea caddy or an incense burner, is to be specially featured in a temae.
This square ceramic dish is perfectly suited for a serving dish during the kaiseki meal that accompanies a formal tea gathering (chaji). Fashioned in the Oribe style, with its distinctive green glaze and bold designs, it depicts a single flower in...
