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From left: Jintaro Ando, Itsue, Toshio, circa 1940. Courtesy Ando family.

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Eagle’s nest in pine, dated Feb. 1944, Eaton collection, 2015.100.64a, courtesy of Japanese American National Museum.

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Amache roses. Two versions, from left: (unfinished) by Toshiro Morita. Right carving has message in Japanese on back side: “To Sakai-sama. By Kawamura, Dec. 1944, Wartime concentration camp, Amache.” Donated to the Amache Preservation Society by the T.Y. Sakai family. Courtesy Toshie Morita and Amache Preservation Society. Photos by David Izu (left) and Nancy Ukai.

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xyz Toshie Morita photo: David Izu, 6/5/18, Sebastopol, California

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After release from Jerome, Arkansas, Tatsuko Shinno, formerly of Wilmington, California, shows her wood creations in Des Moines, Iowa: a cigarette box, ashtray, bookends and carved pins. Photo by Hikaru Iwasaki, September, 1944. National Archives.