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Signed in medium, bottom right corner: Henry Sugimoto. Written on back: [Japanese characters] in camp Jerome/24"x19 1/2" Image of a Nisei soldier standing in salute in front of a cross looking down at a woman dressed in dark blue in the foreground who holds up a senninbari. Rows of small white crosses on green grass fill lower left and right background. In the upper right background is the image of an American flag over a red star above a large "V". (Very similar to the painting entitled "Senninbari," also by Sugimoto (92.97.140).) Issei mothers prepared their sons for war by creating a senninbari, a protective talisman made of cloth. An image is sewn onto the fabric, with a thousand stitches done by many women throughout the camp. Sugimoto's sympathy for both nisei soldiers and their issei parents is evident in this work.
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