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Metadata
Title |
Flower Design Sketchbook, 1943-1944 |
Object Name |
Sketchbook |
Scope & Content |
Sketchbook belonging to Yoshiko Yamanouchi. Small spiral-bound sketchbook with 54 ruled leaves and brown cover, hand-numbered in red per illustration (not per page), beginning on the reverse side of leaf 8 as page 1, until page 62. Reads right to left. Pages are filled with sketches by Yamanouchi of floral arrangements in pencil, ink, and watercolor, with notes in Japanese and dates in English - earliest is November 19th, 1943 (on page numbered as 1), latest is August 18th, 1944 (on page numbered as 61). Some illustrations, such as 49, go across two pages. Small card taped to front inside cover, showing two irregular geometric shapes. First 12 pages depict 22 different shapes for floral arrangements (numbered in red), as well as diagrams for the placement of floral elements in a base. On the next page are drawings of various bases with prices. |
Date |
1943-1944 |
Creator |
Yamanouchi, Yoshiko |
Catalog Number |
2019.048.003 |
Collection |
3D - Art |
Notes |
"Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland internment camps for the duration of the war. While in these bleak camps, the internees used scraps and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their surroundings. Arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience." https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/gaman Belonged to Japanese San Mateo resident Yoshiko Yamanouchi. |
Category |
Fine Arts |
People |
Yamanouchi, Yoshiko |
Search Terms |
Yamanouchi, Yoshiko Japan Japanese Japanese - World War II Japanese Americans Japanese Americans - Internment Japanese Americans - Topaz Japanese Americans Internment Japanese Evacuation Japanese History Art Floral Industry Painting |
Subjects |
Floral Sketchbooks Japan Japanese internment Drawing Painting |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Laura Watanuki |