combo collage photo

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.

Katagiri combo2

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

xyz Hamamoto pair

Ando family low res

xyz family plus Isamu K. Fujita, in later years. Courtesy Irene Kinoshita.

Panel section photo credits: Fujita carving, David Izu 2018; Ando carving, Tarim Kemp, 2108; Takano carving, David Izu 2018; San Jose carving, Nancy Ukai 2017; Oregon Nikkei carving, Lucy Capehart, 2017; unfinished Morita panel and “no-bird” Morita carving, David Izu 2018, panels 8 and 9 tbd