Edna Horiuchi

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Edna Horiuchi es profesora de tercer grado. Disfruta viajar y está intentando aprender japonés. Su hijo, Kenzo, ahora está trabajando como ingeniero estructural en San Francisco.

Última actualización en septiembre de 2019

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Coronado Japanese community, a Tea Garden, and a Movie Star

Por Edna Horiuchi
3 Ago 2022

Before World War II, there were sixteen Japanese families (including children, about 100 individuals) living in the resort town of Coronado on a peninsula in San Diego Bay, California. These were Issei who were mostly from Kagoshima, Japan and their Nisei children. Many of the Issei worked at the luxurious Hotel Del Coronado as gardeners, maids, or cooks, or at the nearby North Island naval base as cleaners or doing laundry. Shizue Koba was the only Coronado Issei woman who knew how to drive and was able to pick up and deliver laundry. Najiro Nakamura worked as a chef for the “sugar ki…

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Nobuko Miyamoto: Giving Voice to Asian American Stories - Part 2

Por Edna Horiuchi
9 Feb 2022

Read Part 1 >> On the influence of Reverend Mas Kodani of Senshin Buddhist Temple (in Los Angeles, CA): I believe one of the most influential people in my art making, actually. But when I came back here to be able to be at Senshin, Rev. Mas just openly gave me the key to the social hall without really knowing me that well. And trusted me. He said, "You could teach dance, you know. You could rehearse here." And that openness and the trust that he had was really shocking. That’s having a lot of faith in a person and we really moved in there! (laughs) And then I had Kamau. Kamau …

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Nobuko Miyamoto: Giving Voice to Asian American Stories - Part 1

Por Edna Horiuchi
8 Feb 2022

Despite the pandemic, 2021 was a landmark year for Great Leap Artistic Director and activist, Nobuko Miyamoto. Her autobiography, Not Yo’ Butterfly, My Long Song of Relocation, Race,Love, and Revolution was published in June by the University of California Press. Her double CD set, 120,000 Songs, was released in February by Smithsonian Folkways and included new songs as well as re-recorded oldies. A Nobuko Miyamoto Christmas Ornament was featured in the Japanese American National Museum’s (JANM) holiday catalog (the previous year's catalog featured an ornament honoring Yuri Koch…

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The Highflying Artistry of Miné Okubo

Por Edna Horiuchi
12 Nov 2021

A whimsical drawing by Miné Okubo portrays a family and dog adrift in a hot air balloon over downtown Los Angeles, the distinctive city hall building in the foreground. The subject matter is very different from the camp drawings of Citizen 13660. Okubo produced this sketch for the holiday edition of the Japanese American newspaper Kashu Mainichi sometime between 1965 and 1975. The drawing was part of a larger collection donated to the Japanese American National Museum in 1998 by Hiro Hishiki, Kashu Mainichi editor and publisher. The Los Angeles newspaper had a long prewar histo…

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Crónicas Nikkei #8—Héroes Nikkei: Pioneros, Modelos a Seguir e Inspiraciones

Mine Okubo

Por Edna Horiuchi
3 Oct 2019

La artista Mine Okubo es más famosa por su libro Citizen 13660, una memoria gráfica de los campos de concentración japoneses-americanos. Se convirtió en mi heroína mientras yo era una estudiante en la Universidad de California (UC), Riverside,en 1979. Como una joven de veintitantos años, me sentí inspirada por los logros de Mine como parte de la “grandiosa generación” que sobrevivió a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ella lo hizo en sus propios términos y sin disculpas. Fue perseverante como mujer artista y en su vida…