Drawing by Mirikitani to Koho Yamamoto
date: label: date made
content: 1952
notes: label: Description
content: This sketch is a gift that Jimmy Mirikitani gave Koho Yamamoto after they met. Jimmy endured a lot during WWII. He was taken to the Tule Lake incarceration camp, pictured in the drawing. Here he was segregated because he answered "no" on two key questions on a government issued Loyalty Questionnaire. People who answered no like Jimmy did were labeled as disloyal, and Tule Lake became a segregation camp where all the disloyal prisoners were sent. Jimmy renounced his U.S. citizenship, and was kept in different detention centers until years after the war ended. He went through many painful trials during the war, and that is reflected in his art, the sporatic, almost angry sketches of Tule Lake and barracks show the tribulations he went through.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Koho Yamamoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0152.03
label: accession number
content: 2016.0152
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0152.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: graphite (overall material)
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 10 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 27.305 cm