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Title
Hana fuda Japanese playing cards
Creator
Nakano, Choji
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
These cards were made by Mr. Choji Nakan at Tule Lake Relocation Center to provide his fellow Isseis with recreational activities. He used hard electrical insulation boards to make the cards. They became so popular he made them for people in the other nine relocation centers. There are seventy-five playing cards in this box.
Format
3 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
4000
RGB
24 Bit
6000 x 3333
57.2
Tiff
Identifier
jc25b-05
ark:/13030/kt7b69q4s7
1262.jpg
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/1261
Subject
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Tule Lake Relocation Center
Concentration camps--California
Japanese Americans--Social life and customs
Playing cards
Prisoners as artists
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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