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img Carved wood heart (ddr-densho-475-157)

Wood carving of a heart. Presumably made by Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in Poston.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-475-157/

img Carved peacock pin (ddr-densho-475-152)

Wood carving of a peacock with a safety pin inserted in the back. Presumably made by Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in Poston.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-475-152/

img Carved wood heart with inner yellow heart (ddr-densho-475-159)

Wood carving of a heart with a smaller yellow heart set inside the larger one. Presumably made by Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in Poston.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-475-159/

img Carved brown sparrow bird pin (ddr-densho-475-155)

Wood carving of a perched brown sparrow with a safety pin inserted in the back. Presumably made by Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in Poston.

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doc Sketch of woman and cat (ddr-densho-329-1180)

Signed at bottom: Okubo '77

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vh Ed Tsutakawa Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-196-18)

Living conditions in Minidoka concentration camp, work as the camp's artist

This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-196-18/

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 21 (ddr-densho-156-285)

Article titles: "Mass Hawaii Jap Ouster Unlikely"; "Jap Reprisal Due on War Prisoners, Berlin Radio Says"; "Clearing the Atmosphere"; "3 Plead Guilty as Jap Agents"; "Crop Survey of Big Horn Basin"; "FBI Seizes Jap Artist, 16 Others"; "Mexico Will Ease Italian Alien Curbs."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-285/

Narrator Rick Shiomi

Sansei male. Japanese Canadian playwright, stage director and taiko artist. He is a founder and currently the Artistic Director of the Minneapolis, Minnesota based Asian American theater company, Mu Performing Arts.

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/718/

av Densho (ddr-densho-1024-123)

Electronic artist Shigeto explores his family’s history and the lasting effects of WWII internment, weaving together personal reflections, archival footage, and music. Through conversations with his mother and grandmother, he uncovers how their shared past and cultural heritage have shaped his identity, resilience, and artistry.

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img Photograph of an artist painting at an easel while a young girl watches (ddr-csujad-47-72)

Photograph of an artist painting at an easel while a young girl observes at Manzanar incarceration camp. In the distance several camp buildings are visible. The painting appears to be a watercolor landscape. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0108

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img Young artist completing a poster in poster shop at Heart Mountain incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-9)

Young artist completing a poster in poster shop at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. January 8, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_009

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-14-9/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 50, No. 11 (March 11, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-11)

Select article titles: "No racial, color discrimination case reported during Squaw Valley Olympics" (p.1); "Newsman who sent to U.S. first story of 442nd in combat addresses Monterrey JACL" (p.3); "Japanese artist completes 30-scroll set of Chinese scenes as gift to Columbia" (p.8)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-32-11/

img Wang Jingwei having his portrait painted (ddr-njpa-1-1067)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Wang Drawn. Young Western artist Kanuemon Asai travelled to Nanjing to have Wang Jingwei sit for a portrait to be entered into this fall's Ueno exhibition. Asai then returned to Japan on 15th. Photograph: Wang modelling for Asai. [Stamped] August 16, 1940."

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img High School Library (ddr-janm-15-14)

1 ink drawing on paper: Eight (7) students in the library with three (3) of the students exiting through the door in background. Students seated at tables reading or writing, or at shelving looking at books. One (1) woman looks stands behind a curved desk, looking towards the students.\n\n" - D.T. Hamaoka - 1945" written in …

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img 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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img Japanese Movie (ddr-janm-15-15)

1 ink drawing on paper: A line of people wait to enter a large building hosting a screening of a movie with a sign on front that is written in Japanese, an electricity pole in midground in front of the line In the foreground on right is a man in a suit and hat standing by …

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img 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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-15-7/

img Untitled (ddr-janm-15-16)

1 ink drawing on paper: In the foreground on right, eight (8) men working on the roof of a barracks, installing tar paper, with a single sunflower and clothesline to the lower right of them. In foreground and midground are five (5) individuals, two (2) who are loading logs onto a truck. Two (2) birds fly …

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img Going to Shower on Geta (ddr-janm-15-17)

1 watercolor painting on paper: Hues of brown, grey, blue, yellow, pink, red. Women and young girls going to and leaving the women's community bathroom at Tule Lake. On the left is the entrance to the bathroom. Above the doorway is a sign that reads: Women. There is a woman and young girl in the doorway. …

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img 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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img Untitled (ddr-janm-15-11)

1 ink drawing on paper: Mess hall scene showing various families at meal time with three children looking towards the viewer. The style of drawing is reminiscent of woodblock prints.

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img 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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img 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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img 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 …

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img 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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