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Canadian Nikkei Artist

Hayashi Studio of Cumberland, BC: A Documentary by Hayley Gray

“Close to 800 dry glass negatives abandoned by the Matsubuchi studio reappeared in the mid-1980s in garage sales, and were recognized and collected by Cumberland ...

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Way Down in Egypt Land: Tamio Wakayama, Civil Rights Photographer - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> I cannot recall precisely when I first heard of Tamio Wakayama. Although I owned a copy of A Dream of Riches and ...

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Way Down in Egypt Land: Tamio Wakayama, Civil Rights Photographer - Part 1

In the column I wrote some time ago on the Nisei photographer Yoichi Okamoto, who served as official photographer in the White House during the ...

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Little Changes in Family Celebrations

We know that many Japanese came to Brazil over 100 years ago. They brought their culture with them, which their descendants preserve, but at the ...

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Faces of Civil Rights, Then and Now: Paul Kitagaki Jr.'s Gambatte! Project

“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archives have always haunted me,” Paul Kitagaki ...

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The Artist’s Memory: Soichi Sunami and Japanese American Photography

I have the museum mostly to myself today. At the Cascadia Art Museum’s exhibit Invocation of Beauty, there are breathtaking portraits of famous figures ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #7 — Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Pictures and Poetry: Deepening the Connection to my Japanese Roots

Growing up Sansei in my part of California’s San Gabriel Valley meant you didn’t have to work very hard to stay connected to ...

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The Man Behind the Camera: The story of Yoichi Okamoto, LBJ's Shadow

Since the early days of the camera, photography has enjoyed a particular vogue in Japan. Long before the stereotyped tourist groups snapping pictures arrived on ...

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Tamio Wakayama: A Remembrance

I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

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A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi

Part 3: Birth and Family Background of Basil Izumi

Basil Tadashi Izumi was born April 25, 1937, in Vancouver General Hospital. He was delivered by Dr. H. M. Shimokura, who later would earn the ...