Toshiki Hamaoka Collection
PARTNER
Japanese American National Museum
Visit partner
COLLECTION ID
ddr-janm-15
DESCRIPTION
Toshiki "Dick" Hamaoka was hired by an anthropologist and community worker to create watercolor sketches of life at Tule Lake concentration camp, rather than hiring a more expensive photographer. His 17 watercolor paintings and ink drawings are vibrant and detailed and show a different perspective than straightforward photographs.
INCLUSIVE UNIT DATE
1942-1945
BULK UNIT DATE
1945
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
17 watercolor paintings and ink drawings
CONTRIBUTOR
Japanese American National Museum
CREATORS
- Hamaoka, Toshiki "Dick" (artist)
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Charlotte Opler Sagoff, 2002.142)
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted
17 Objects
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Bonodori (ddr-janm-15-1)
1 watercolor painting of ten women dressed in kimono and geta, performing Japanese folk dance, bon odori, on the basketball court in Tule Lake. Signed in the BLC: D.T.H., 1945.
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Boy's Festival in May (ddr-janm-15-2)
1 watercolor painting of the celebration of boy's day with boys in the streets and flying carp banners hanging from poles between barracks. Painting is unsigned.
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Offering Condolences (ddr-janm-15-3)
1 watercolor painting of three men and a woman offering condolences to a grieving man in front of a barrack. Dated 1945 and signed D.T.H on the bottom left corner.
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Scene with Radishes Drying, Clothes Drying, Kids Playing Basket (ddr-janm-15-4)
1 watercolor painting, in foreground, radishes are drying with clothes drying behind it. There is also a pair of geta beneath the clothesline post while three boys play basket to the right.\n\nOn lower right corner on the painting is a signature, "Dick T. Hamaoka / 1945". On matte reads, "Scene with radishes drying, clothes drying, kids …
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Kids Playing in Dirt in Irrigation Ditch (ddr-janm-15-5)
1 watercolor painting of four children playing in the dirt with pails in the foreground. A 4x4 post fence behind them with a young man riding a bicycle and two women walking in opposite directions on the street.\n\nOn lower left corner on painting is a signature, "D.T. Hamaoka / 1945." On matte reads, "Kids playing in …
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Tulean Characters (ddr-janm-15-6)
1 watercolor painting of six figures: a Kibei boy with eye glasses and book in hand; a Nisei boy in a navy blue coat and red cap; Hoshidan kid in white shirt; Nisei in a dark blue zoot suit; Issei woman with knitting handbag; an Issei artist carrying his brushes in his left hand and canvas …
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Koi-Nobori (May) (ddr-janm-15-7)
1 ink drawing on paper: A celebration of Boys' day with carp fish banners on tall poles. The drawing also shows the mother holding a baby in the foreground while two young children look at the carp fish banners flying in the midground, rows of barracks in the background.
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Showing Pass at Gate (ddr-janm-15-8)
1 watercolor painting on paper: Hues of green, purple, gray, pink, red, yellow, orange, blue and brown. There are 10 individuals in the painting, eight (8) men and three (3) women, with eight (8) individuals being Japanese Americans with passes in their hands. In the foreground is one young man walking towards the camp gate while …
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Canteen #1 (ddr-janm-15-9)
1 ink drawing on paper: Eleven (11) inmates shopping in the canteen with nine (9) sales clerks. Aisle in the middle for customers to look around, counters hold some goods and cash registers with most items being on the shelves behind the counters. Wooden signs hanging from ceilings read from left to right, "Grocery," illegible sign, …
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Untitled (ddr-janm-15-10)
1 graphite pencil drawing on paper: Construction of foot bridges across a canal; four (4) men in the ditch, six (6) men altogether on the sides of the ditches. Construction zone on bottom left corner, truck on top right corner, across the canal are three hills of dirt or other organic material on left; in background …