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  • Year of the Rabbit - Fun Stuff

    Here are some fun and informative things to download and check out online! Usagi Yojimbo Activity Sheets Download this Usagi Yojimbo coloring sheet that doubles as a cool reminder to come check out the exhibition! Coloring Sheet Stan Sakai Links Usagi Yojimbo website: usagiyojimbo.com Stan Sakai’s blog: usagiguy.livejournal.com Dark Horse Comics website: darkhorse.com/Zones/Usagi San...

  • BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—Audio Tour

    Welcome to the audio tour of BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration. Go behind the scenes with artist Masaki Fujihata as he delves into the questions he asked, the observations he made, and the concepts that came to fruition as he created this exhibition. Through historic photographs and two augmented reality (AR) experiences, Masaki Fujihata invites viewers to participate in the exhibiti...

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  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Wakaji Matsumoto

    Wakaji Matsumoto was born to Wakamatsu and Haru (née Motoyama) Matsumoto on July 17, 1889, in Jigozen, Hatsukaichi-shi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. In 1906, Wakaji was summoned by his father, Wakamatsu, to help with work on his farm in Los Angeles. Wakaji traveled from Japan by ship to Victoria, British Columbia and from there by boat and train to Los Angeles. Wakaji first worked as a houseboy to learn English, and ...

  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Los Angeles

    By 1922, Wakaji was an active photographer in the Los Angeles photography community. By 1925 he was an assistant at Toyo Miyatake’s studio in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo. Toyo was the son of the first Japanese confectioner in Los Angeles. Like Wakaji, he yearned to be an artist and did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. After Toyo took a course with local photographer H. K. Shigeta, he bought the Paris P...

  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Hiroshima

    The Matsumoto family returned to Hiroshima in the summer of 1927. Upon their return, Wakaji opened Hiroshima Shashinkan (Hiroshima Photography Studio) in the Naka Ward, near the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall—now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome. The Matsumotos lived above the studio. Wakaji did studio work, commercial photography, and contract photography for the Japanese military and other busines...

  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Resources

    Wakaji Matsumoto—An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944 highlights an artist’s rare photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles prior to World War II and urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Browse this exhibition’s resources below which include essays by Dennis Reed, the curator of the exhibition, and Karen Matsumoto, Wakaji’s granddaughter...

  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Event

    Join us on Saturday, December 10, 2022, for a virtual program with curator Dennis Reed; project liaison Karen Matsumoto, Wakaji’s granddaughter; and Masami Nishimoto, writer for the Chugoku Shimbun, and others involved with highlighting Matsumoto’s work to delve deeper into his photographs and legacy. Click on the link below for more details and to RSVP. To see a complete listing of the JANM’s programs, check o...

  • Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)

  • 2023 Benefit & Auction—Bid for Education