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Uploaded by on Dec 17, 2010

This is from the exhibition at the Smithsonian:

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946

The text reads:

Kichitaro Kawase
Interned at Amache, Colorado

butsudan
scrap wood, paint, metal

Collection of Harua Kawase and Family

Kawase was a poultry farmer from Petaluma, California. He died in camp three weeks before his family was released on August 21, 1945.


He was my grandmother's father, my great grandfather.

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