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"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

2018年09月01日

Take a tour of JANM’s core exhibition with our knowledgeable docents. This is a great opportunity for first-time visitors, long-time museum members, and everyone in between. Included with museum admission.

"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

2017年04月01日

Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

Mottainai Yoga with traci

2017年01月28日

Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

Mottainai Yoga with traci

2017年01月14日

Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

Members Only Learning at Lunch: Hisako Hibi

2016年08月05日

Join JANM’s Collections Management and Access unit for a viewing of oil paintings by Issei artist Hisako Hibi (1907–91). Hibi was a painter and printmaker throughout her life, exhibiting widely and achieving particular renown in the Bay Area, where she first moved with her family from Japan in 1920, and where she eventually retired and passed away. In 1942, Hibi and her husband George, also an artist, we...

Pop-Up Cards for Any Occasion with Ryosen Shibata

2007年06月23日

Be prepared for birthdays, holidays, and "just because" occasions by creating whimsical pop-up cards for that special family member or friend. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations recommended. Made possible, in part, by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Hinamatsuri Celebration

1998年03月01日

Join us in a celebration of girls! Have fun playing games, learning how to wear kimonos, making origami dolls, and enjoying storytelling. Bring your favorite doll to add to the Museum’s volunteer and staff doll exhibit. Storyteller, Megumi will thrill you with Japanese folktales “Kaguyahime,” “Tsuru no Ongaeshi,” and the “Girl Who Loved Caterpillars.” Children of all ages and adults are welcome. Reservations sugge...

Hideo Date Collection

(99.111) The online collection of New York City-based artist Hideo Date (1907-2004) dates from the 1930s to 2004 and includes 178 drawings, prints and paintings. Born in Osaka, Japan, Date immigrated to California in 1923. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, but left after a year to pursue the study of traditional brush painting in Japan. Date returned to Los An...

Ireichō—Event

On September 24, 2022, the Japanese American National Museum hosted a private event to consecrate and install the Ireichō, a sacred book that records the names of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly imprisoned in US Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps during World War II. A procession of interfaith clergy, survivors, and descendants from seventy-five World War I...

Cruising J-Town—Photos

Southern California is one of America’s original autopias—a region built from and for car and truck culture. For over one hundred years, the Nikkei (Japanese American) community has shared a profound, complicated relationship with that culture.Whether driving fish trucks or drift racers, joining teenage car clubs or professional race teams, this community has long embraced the automobile to express creative identitie...