Diaries and Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tokita, Kamekichi
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content: Kamekichi Tokita Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-circa 2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tokikame, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The diaries and transcriptions are at the beginning of the series in chronological order. The diaries are followed by notebooks and notes in loose chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for blank pages of notebooks.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of diaries written by Tokita (in Japanese) between December 7, 1941 and 1944 while his family was forcibly removed to and incarcerated in Minidoka Relocation Camp in Idaho, and other notebooks and notes. There is also a transcript translated from prewar to modern Japanese by Haruo Takasugi and a subsequent translation of the diary from modern Japanese to English by Naomi Kusunoki-Martin. Two additional notebooks written by Tokita much earlier are also in this series. There is a fragment of a letter written in English from Minidoka, school notes, and a poem about an orange in Japanese. An unsigned note contains a sketch of a pig and concerns receipts discarded after Tokita's death. There are also some annotated scattered notes in Japanese, perhaps written by Tokita or others.