Toronto Woodcarver Kats Takada - Part 1
Artists define culture.
Nikkei artists have been helping to define ours for generations. A few who have made a personal impact are novelist/poet Joy Kogawa, writer Ken Adachi, American writers “No No Boy” John Okada of Seattle and “Yokohama, California” writer Toshio Mori, Canadian artists Roy Kiyooka, Kazuo Nakamura, architect Raymond Moriyama (e.g., Canadian War Museum and Ontario Science Centre) as well as the late great filmmaker Jesse Nishihata and emerging ones like Chris Hope and Brendan Uegama.
In their individual ways, these artists have mapped out where we have been and give us hints as to where we might …