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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