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A haiku association in Seattle, Rainier Ginsha will begin its 85th year in 2019. Nineteen members of the association bring their haiku once a month, …
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As a younger Sansei/older Yonsei, I've been reflecting a lot on the big sisters and cousins of the Sansei generation who have raised or influenced …
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This month I thought we’d have a little fun with short form and featuring two creative community members who are dear to the Japanese American and …
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Little Tokyo, 1941 As I walked toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Heights, I felt the bracing power of the fiery sunset …
In July 1932, on the occasion of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, The Kashu Mainichi ran an article welcoming the Japanese athletes, written by an …
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Read part 2 >> In 1990 I made my first trip to Community Yuba pregnant with hope. The offshoot of Yuba’s legacy had propagated and …
Read part 1 >> At Yama, where farming, daily reverence, and art converge, the idea of work can mean most anything. The people grow fruits and …
Read the introduction to the Yama Project > YAMA: Embrace the ordinary and nurture a spirit of gratitude 誰の墓と 聞いて子供等 手を合わす whose grave is it? …
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Introduction to the Yama ProjectThis project is a documentary of a Japanese farming and arts community in Brazil known as Comunidade Yuba. The farm is …
A recent trip to Los Angeles to present at the Japanese American National Museum afforded me a glimpse into a culture in which I’m not …
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