全米日系人博物館
(Japanese American National Museum)
1985年に設立された全米日系人博物館（JANM）は、日系人の経験を共有することで、アメリカの民族的・文化的多様性への理解と認識を促進しています。ロサンゼルスのダウンタウンにある歴史的なリトル・トーキョー地区に位置するJANMは、日系アメリカ人の声を伝え、すべての人が自らの遺産や文化を探求できるフォーラムを提供しています。1992年に一般に向けて開館して以来、JANMは70以上の展覧会を開催し、17の展覧会を米国、日本、南米の主要な文化博物館で巡回展示しています。JANMについて詳しい情報は、janm.orgをご覧いただくか、@jamuseumをフォローしてください。
（2023年３月 更新）
この執筆者によるストーリー
Every Branch Has a Personality of Its Own – A Profile of Chiye Tomihiro
2014年4月21日 • 全米日系人博物館
Chiye Tomihiro is used to being interviewed. She testified before the Commission of Citizens (CWRIC) in 1981, her memories are in several oral history collections, and she has appeared on TV and in magazine stories. Her grace reflects both her experience and her nature. Poised and at ease, she offers cold drinks to visitors in her lakefront Chicago apartment. She wastes no time. “I was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1924. The first thing that I mention to people from …
I DON’T COMPLAIN – A Profile of Art Morimitsu
2014年4月14日 • 全米日系人博物館
The story of Chicagoan Art Morimitsu’s life is the story of a community—the story of Japanese American immigrants whose sons and daughters triumphed over hardships and discrimination to make their way as exemplary Americans. At age 86, Morimitsu knew that his life’s story was the stuff of legend. In a June, 1998 interview his mischievous grin and twinkling eyes indicate the pleasure that it gives him to recall the events of his long life of hard work and service. Morimitsu’s …
Nurturing a Family Business: The Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery
2007年8月29日 • 全米日系人博物館
It is mid-March in California’s Central Valley, and Richard Yamaguchi is very busy. One thousand black pine trees need to be trimmed and shaped; several must be carefully dug out and moved for landscapers in need of this familiar and iconic variety of Japanese conifer. Only two weeks remain before the trees come out of their seasonal dormancy, after which they cannot be trimmed or moved until next November, when all the remaining trees—some of which have taken 50 years …
Strength in Beauty: Ruth Asawa
2007年5月24日 • 全米日系人博物館
"I can see glimpses of my childhood in my work. The seemingly endless patterns we made in the dust, the shapes of the flowers and the vegetation, the translucence of a dragonfly’s wing when sunlight pours through it—these things have influenced my work.” - Ruth Asawa, 2001 Strength in Beauty For Nisei artist Ruth Asawa, her work reflects the richness of everyday life and the beauty of ordinary things. Her intricately crocheted wire sculptures, lithographs, and drawings, speak of the …
