The furoshiki is an oversized square cloth, dyed in a variety of colors and patterns that is used for wrapping, storing, and carrying things. The origin of the furoshiki goes back to the 14th century, when powerful feudal lords used the cloth to...
Santa Fe Internment Camp [aacr2]; Concentration camps -- New Mexico [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Nozaki, Kiyoshi [aacr2];
Duffel bag issued to Kiyoshi Nozaki when arrested and sent to Santa Fe Relocation Center.
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...
Abacus [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Woodwork [lcsh]; Sakazaki, Shoya [aacr2]
This abacus (soroban) was made by Shoya Sakazaki out of scrap wood in Tule Lake Relocation Center when he was sixteen years old.
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...
Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Japanese American women [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity [lcsh]; Sumida, Tatsuko [aacr2];...
Tatsuko Sumida (back row, far right) played the samisen. Mrs. Sumida was left behind when her husband, Shigeichi Sumida, was sent to the Santa Fe Internment Camp.
Japanese American veterans [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans [lcsh];
When Japanese American veterans of WWII were denied membership in the existing local VFW Post, they initiated plans for their own Nisei Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of Officers of the Nisei VFW Post No. 8985 was held at the...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; Japanese American veterans [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh];
When Japanese American veterans of WWII were denied membership in the existing local VFW Post, they initiated plans for their own Nisei VFW Post. The ceremony was held at the Buddhist Recreation Hall, Sacramento, California.
Japanese American veterans [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans [lcsh];
When Japanese American veterans of WWII were denied membership in the existing local VFW Post, they initiated plans for thier own Nisei VFW Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of Officers was at the Buddhist Recreation Hall, Sacramento,...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; Japanese American veterans [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh];
When Japanese American veterans of WWII were denied membership in the existing local VFW Post, they initiated plans for thier own Nisei VFW Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of Officers was at the Buddhist Recreation Hall, Sacramento,...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Personal narratives [lcsh]; Japanese American veterans [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh];
When Japanese American veterans of WWII were denied membership in the existing local VFW Post, they initiated plans for thier own Nisei VFW Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of Officers was at the Buddhist Recreation Hall, Sacramento,...
Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Shogi [lcsh]
Set iincludes the game board (JC1H:04a) and 41 playing pieces (JC1H:04b). 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...
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 -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Wood-carving [lcsh]; Talismans [lcsh];
These sandals were carved at an internment center. According to custom, when someone travels around, another person may give them the shoes so that the wanderer will stop traveling.
Japanese American baseball players -- California -- Florin [lcsh]; Tsukamoto, Yoshio [aacr2]; Baseball gloves [lcsh];
Leather baseball glove used by Yoshio Tsukamoto before WWII when he played for the Florin Athletic Club, then used in the Fresno Assembly Center, and in Jerome Relocation Center.
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.
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...
Kobukusa are small, square, silk cloths placed between tea utensils and the hand or floor. They are sometimes used to protect the hands from heat when a non raku-style teabowl (e.g., Hagi, Karatsu, Ido) is chosen for thick tea (koicha) service. ...
Fans (sensu) are used by guests at a tea gathering, especially when entering or exiting the tearoom, however, they are never opened or used to fan oneself. Men's sensu are slightly larger than those for women. The lacquered frame of this woman's...
