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Title
Winter scene of camp barracks at Topaz Relocation Center by Charles Erabu (Suiko) Mikami
Creator
Mikami, Charles Erabu Suiko
Date Created and/or Issued
1941/1945
Publication Information
California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Contributing Institution
California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection
Japanese American Archival Collection
Rights Information
2004
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or photographs must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
Charles Mikami was born in Hiroshima, Japan 1901, and began studying sumi-e painting at the age of fourteen. In 1919 he immigrated to Seattle. He and his family were interned first in Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz. During incarceration, Mikami actively painted sumi-e. After moving to Morgan Hill, California, he continued to do sumi-e painting and write senryu poems. His paintings can be found in the collection of the Japanese American History Archives in San Francisco.
Type
image
Format
19 x 15 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
4000
RGB
24 Bit
6000 x 4783
82.1
Tiff
Identifier
jcfolio2-05
ark:/13030/kt4s2020x5
1250.jpg
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/1249
Subject
Concentration camps--Utah
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Central Utah Relocation Center--Pictorial works
Painting
Prisoners as artists
Barracks
Relation
From the Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives

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