Henry Sugimoto Collection

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Henry Sugimoto, "Untitled"

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This painting depicts a Japanese-language schoolteacher in California teaching his students katakana. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States FBI sought out any Japanese American that they considered a threat to the U.S. One of the "threatening" occupations was the Japanese-language schoolteacher, and many of them were taken away by the FBI.