Peter Kelley
Peter Kelley es un ex reportero, editor y columnista de un diario. En 2004 se incorporó a la oficina de Noticias e Información de la Universidad de Washington como editor asistente del periódico para el personal docente de la institución y ahora escribe sobre educación, asuntos públicos y artes.
Actualizado en marzo de 2012
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‘Signs of Home’: The art, life and wartime diary of Kamekichi Tokita
19 de marzo de 2012 • Peter Kelley
Artist Kamekichi Tokita came to America from Japan in 1919 and achieved moderate success painting familiar scenes near his Seattle home—a back yard, an alley, a street market—in comfortable, muted tones reflecting the damp Northwest weather. But after years as an artist and sign painter in his adopted home, life for Tokita and his family changed forever with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Tokita began writing a diary that day which would last throughout the war: …