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Visitors are invited to place a Japanese hanko stamp beneath each name, acknowledging each individual. From 2025 to 2026, Ireichō will go on national tour until every single person is honored.
🔗quietamericans.com/ireicho/
#QuietAmericans #Ireicho #DuncanRyukenWilliams #JANM #WWIIHistory
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Join us at the @jamuseum.bsky.social's Nikkei Children’s Book Festival on September 20! 📖
Come meet the Discover Nikkei team and participate in a creative activity exploring family and foods for all ages! 🍙
For more info: discovernikkei.org/e...
#childrensbooks #bookfestival #janm
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This self-portrait shows Japanese-born American artist Hisako Hibi against a soft, indistinct background of gray and beige tones. She faces forward with steady directness, her dark eyes meeting our gaze. Her expression is steady, unsmiling to convey dignity under duress. Her black hair is neatly parted and drawn back, framing her oval face. She wears a muted green blouse with a pointed collar, rendered with broad, confident brushstrokes. The subdued palette and simplicity highlight her thoughtful presence. In 1944, behind the barbed wire of the Topaz War Relocation Center, Hisako Hibi painted herself with quiet determination. She, her husband (painter Matsusaburo “George” Hibi), and their children, like thousands of Japanese Americans, had been uprooted from their San Francisco home and confined in the Utah desert. In “Study for a Self-Portrait,” Hibi stares out with steady eyes, her expression calm yet tinged with sorrow. The muted palette and simplicity of form reflect the starkness of camp life, but also her refusal to be silenced. Amid hardship, she taught art, painted whenever supplies allowed, and used her canvas to affirm identity and endurance. This act of self-portraiture was not merely personal; it was a declaration of presence in a moment when her community was reduced to numbers. After the war, she returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and eventually recorded her camp experiences in “Peaceful Painter.” Today, her work is recognized not only for its aesthetic merit but also for its testimony of resilience, creativity, and survival. Hibi’s impact lies in her ability to transform personal suffering into lasting art, giving voice to a history often overlooked.
“Study for a Self-Portrait” by Hisako Hibi (Japanese-American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1944 - Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, California) #WomenInArt #JANM #art #WomensArt #artText #WomanArtist #HisakoHibi #Hibi #JapaneseAmericanArt #artwork #Selfportrait #JapaneseAmericanNationalMuseum
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Japanese American National Museum.
Japanese American National Museum. #StreetPhotography #JANM #LittleTokyo #FirstStreet #CentralAve
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#OTD May 28, 2023: JANM screened the film in Los Angeles.
Before Hollywood was Hollywood, LA already had JA.
Let’s not forget this time.
#OathOfTheSword #JapaneseAmericanHistory #AAPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmericanFilm #QuietAmericans #HiddenHistory #APIHistory #JANM
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Ruth Shiraishi's girl scout scrapbook page: 2007.50.19 Ruth Shiraishi kept a scrapbook of photographs, ephemera, and keepsakes from her time as a Girl Scout while incarcerated at Rohwer, Arkansas. (Gift of R. Ruth Shiraishi, 2007.50.19)
a Chiura Obata Yosemite artwork (98.322.6) Chiura Obata created many sumi-e ink depictions of Yosemite National Park, a place that inspired him and sustained his relationship with Dai-Shizen (Great Nature). (JANM, 98.322.6)
Citizen USA book cover (2002.174.2) Charles Ferguson, Director of Adult Education at Manzanar, wrote a children's book manuscript about life at Manzanar from the perspective of the fictional "Jane Sato," a semi-biographical representation of a real girl and her family. (Gift of Lois Ferguson in Memory of Charles K. Ferguson, 2002.174.2)
For #AAPIHeritageMonth, we're spotlighting the DHC-AUV funded project Unboxed — a project digitizing photos, letters & stories of Japanese Americans during WWII by @jamuseum.bsky.social. These hidden stories are now accessible online. Credits in alt text.
#Unboxed #DigitizingHiddenCollections #JANM
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It’s is a strong reminder of how fragile justice can be.
Learn. Visit. Support. janm.org
#AAPIHeritageMonth #QuietAmericans #JANM #JapaneseAmerican #History #RodneyKing #1992 #LosAngeles #CivilRights #RacialJustice #HiddenHistory #APIHistory
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Proud to have worked with @jamuseum.bsky.social on this shot for Mark Nagata’s “Kaiju vs Heroes” exhibition. Mark (@marknagata.bsky.social) is a brilliant artist and just the nicest guy. #arttoys #toyphotography #kaiju #monster #hero #marknagata #toy #sofubi #photography #vinyltoys #janm #losangeles
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Japanese American artist Tokio Ueyama’s 1942 portrait of a woman in long blue dress reclining in wood frame folding chair as she crochets in front of a doorway opening out to a sunlit exterior depicts his spouse Suye Ueyama during the imprisonment of Americans with Japanese ancestry by the United States throughout World War II. The sunlight through open curtained doorway provides natural lighting for the woman as she looks down at her crocheting, facing left. Her hair is pulled back neatly at the back of her head. She wears white sandals over dark socks. A ball of yarn sits in a basket near her feet, next to a make-shift table with a tin cup and a black handled pot on the right. A pair of sandals rests on doorframe. Shade from the barracks extends a short distance outside with a partial view of one building in direct sunlight to the left and a row of three barracks in distance. This painting depicts the Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia, California constructed at the legendary horse track, where thousands of Japanese-Americans stayed before being transferred to incarceration camps. It may appear to be a gentle and serene scene, but the barracks and the dry inhospitable earth remind us that it was not her choice to be there. In 1941, Tokio and Suye were among the 120,000 Japanese people in the U.S. who were deemed, without cause, as dangers to the country and forced into makeshift prisons. They were “forcibly removed from their home in southern California and sent to the Granada Relocation Center, now known as the Amache National Historic Site, in southeast Colorado.” More than 10,000 people were unconstitutionally incarcerated at Amache in the following years, making it the tenth largest "city" in Colorado at the time. Despite the upheaval and, no doubt, the trauma, Ueyama continued to paint. He captured scenes of the camp and its surroundings and inhabitants while also teaching adult art classes in Block 7E to about 150 students.
The Evacuee (Suye Ueyama) in Kimono" by Tokio Ueyama (American, born in Japan) - Oil on canvas / 1942 - Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, California) #womeninart #janm #tokioueyama #art #japaneseamerican #oilpainting #womensart #portraitofawoman #japaneseamericanart #fineart #history
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The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles faces federal funding cuts of $2 million as a result of DOGE's actions. But the team at JANM isn't pulling back any of its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the […]
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We need more people to push HARD against igmorance, misinformation, and historical revisionism.
REFUSE TO REMAIN IGNORANT.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND POWER IS FREEDOM.
Also, Erika, I love you. You're the definition of badass.
K bye 👀 🖤🧠🖤
#freedom #knowledge #KIPAPIF #JANM
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You all know what to do: #donate to the Japanese American National Museum today!
If you can't donate, please reshare.
#LosAngeles #JANM #JapaneseAmericanNationalMuseum
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I used to be a docent at the Japanese American National Museum, the incredible story of the 442nd Regimental Combat team was wiped from the U.S. Army website. Public outcry brought it back.
#speakout #resist #goforbroke #janm #congressionalmedalofhonor #supportveterans
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The Japanese American National Museum's Pictures of Belonging exhibition features artwork from Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo.
It is now showing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum until Aug 17.
americanart.si.edu/blog/picture...
#JANM @jamuseum.bsky.social
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@georgetakei.bsky.social and all my fellow #janm volunteers
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Left profile of Japanese woman with her hair swept up, held by colorful hair ornament. She is dressed in an orange-red kimono with patterned aqua marine obi. She holds an open gold fan. Behind her is a screen or wall decorated with green hills and cherry blossoms. 花衣 ( はなごろも), hanagoromo is a fancy kimono used for cherry blossom viewing.
Hanagoromo 花衣 ( はなごろも) by Yumeji Takehisa (Japanese) - Oil on canvas / 1931 - Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, California) #womeninart #portrait #janm #oiloncanvas #painting #takehisa #japaneseart #hanagoromo #kimono #japanesekimono #cherryblossoms #花衣
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We saw the first 2 rooms from the Giant Robot exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, but ran out of time to see the rest - there were only 15 mins left when I left the main exhibits to see this.
#janm
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We hit the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo after the LA Auto Show. Its her 10th time, but my first. I didn't get to see everything, because I took a long time, but it was harrowing. Lots of focus on the internment camps and WW2.
#janm
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Suye Ueyama painted by her husband. She is holding a small folded fan and stares forward with her dark hair pulled back, standing on a floral patterned carpet while wearing a black Japanese-style kimono with a peacock and flowers on lower half of kimono and a patterned obi around chest area.
Mrs. Ueyama (Suye Ueyama) in Kimono" by Tokio Ueyama (American, born in Japan) - Oil on canvas / 1929 - Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, California) #art #womeninart #janm #painting #tokioueyama #kimono #japaneseamerican #oilpainting #femaleportrait
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A shirt for sale in the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles that says "no more shikata ga nai." It is paired with an apron/skirt made from a rice sack.
No more " #ShikataGaNai ". I heard this defeatist phrase tossed around a lot by my #JapaneseAmerican family growing up. It basically means "There is nothing to be done about it." Maybe the only way to survive in the 1940s, but not today. #JapaneseAmericanNationalMuseum #LittleTokyoLA #JANM #Nikkei
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Winner of Shohei Ohtani look a like contest held @littletokyo in front of #janm.
His name is Joseph and he won a cash prize of $17 ! 😆
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Stamped the Ireicho at the Japanese American National Museum today. It lists every person who was in an American concentration camp during WW2. My dad & his family were at Rohwer, Santa Anita, Tule Lake & Tuna Canyon. He passed this year at 93 years old. #neverforget #janm #ireicho
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Nice piece by @seanmiura on the festive (and historic) group viewing of #FreshOffTheBoat at LA's #JANM last night: www.downlikejtown.com/first/2015/2/5/fresh-off...
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