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1. 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team Insignia Patch, 1945 - Patch, Insignia

   100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team Insignia Patch, 1945. Long hexagonal patch of a hand carrying a torch. Both the hand and the torch are embroidered in white and surrounded by blue thread, there is a thin stripe of white thread after which is then surrounded by red thread.

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2. Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. - Brooch

   Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin made of tiny white shells that are shaped like flowers in a variety of colors (white, pink, purple). The tiny white shells are spread out next to green fabric shaped like leaves in a brown painted string basket that is shaped like a shell. On top of the brown painted string basket, is a brown painted string loop that goes from the back of the shell shaped basket to the front. Mounted on the ba...

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3. Bronze Star Medal, 1945 - Medal, Commemorative

   Bronze Star Medal, 1945. Bronze five-pointed star medal (A) with a smaller five-pointed star embossed in the middle. The star is attached to a ribbon (B) meant to be pinned onto a person's clothing. The ribbon is red with a narrow white border and a stripe of blue running vertically down the center. "TAKASHI YATABE" is inscribed in verso. The medal was awarded to Takeshi Yatabe for meritorious achievement during WWII, 1944-45.

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4. Chair, c.1942-1945 - Chair

   Chair, c.1942-1945. It was made in Rohwer, Arkansas at the Rohwer War Relocation Center during WWII. It includes a wooden seat back, a seat connected perpendicularly from the seat back and the wooden legs,and small thin boards that connect horizontally and vertically near the four wooden legs. Its seat back is slightly tilted, and connect to its top rail board, and the left and right side of the wooden seat. On the front of the top rail, it has ...

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5. Chair made by Kanichi Eguchi at Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center, c. 1942-1945 - Chair

   Chair made by Kanichi Eguchi at Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center, c. 1942-1945. Wooden chair (shaped like an h) made in Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center by donor's father-in-law. It has a slightly tilted wooden seat back, four wooden legs, a seat connected to the top of four wooden legs, and the stretcher, which is the horizontal support elements joining the the four wooden legs . The slightly tilted seat back are 2 by 2 small thin wooden bo...

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6. Digital images of ephemera related to Japanese Garden Curator Sam Shigeshi Fukudome - Image, Digital

   Digital images of ephemera related to Japanese Garden Curator Sam Shigeshi Fukudome, 1990-2009 (original), 2021 (digitized). Items 2021.001.002.1 to .24 show documentation of awards and newspaper clippings, which range in date from 1990 to 2009. Items 2021.001.002.25 to .35 show photo album pages from the mid-2000s of Fukudome in the San Mateo Japanese Garden. The material was imaged in 2021 by Xavier McNally. 35 TIFF files at 1.61 GB. Individual...

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Eucalyptus Log Mortar, 1920 - Mortar, Food

   Eucalyptus Log Mortar, 1920. Wooden Mortar is 22.5 inch section cut from a solid piece of Eucalyptus log. Wooden log stands on a flat end (as displayed) and has an approximate 7" deep, 15" wide mortar carved into the opposite end. This mortar was used to make mochi. There is also a 7 x 5 knot on the side of log.

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8. Flower Design Sketchbook, 1943-1944 - Sketchbook

   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 a...

   Record Type: Archive

   
9. Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin is made of tiny white shells shaped like small flowers with a variety of colors (white, yellow and purple). The tiny white shells are glued to some wood that is round in shape, and painted in blue throughout with columns of white lines underneath the tiny white shells. At the top of the blue painted round wooden pin, there is some string painted in blue and that is looped around the left ...

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10. Formal Dress of Yoshiko Yamanouchi, c. early 1950s - Dress

    Formal Dress Worn by Yoshiko Yamanouchi, early 1950s. Salmon-colored dress, made of silk. Shear neckline with orchid motif at bottom edge, front and back, short sleeves. Side zip and back button closures. Silk satin lining. Floor length skirt and short sleeves. Faux-wrap construction, gathered at proper left of waist with false tie and front draping panel. Thread loops for belt on either side.

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11. Fred Korematsu Speaks Up - Atkins, Laura; Yogi, Stan

    Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi, 2017. Inscription on title page signed by the authors: "For the San Mateo County History Museum, with deep gratitude for all you do to keep our stories alive." Publisher's description: "Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends--just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with...

    Record Type: Library

    
12. Hagoita Japanese Paddle Toy with Shuttlecock, c. 1936. - Paddle, Tennis

    Hagoita Japanese Paddle Toy with Shuttlecock, c. 1936. Originally enclosed in a gray rectangular box (to be discarded) with some Japanese words/symbols in the middle of the box, this paddle toy (A) is rectangular in shape and is made of wood with a pink background painted with white and green flowers and a darkish black tree trunk with a tint of pink in it. Stitched to the top of the hagoita and the pink background with white and green flowers, t...

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13. Historic Resources Evaluation Report for 1007 East 5th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402 - Report

    Historic Resources Evaluation Report for 1007 East 5th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402, October 2018. Report prepared for Laura Watanuki by Denise Bradley (Landscape Historian) and Ward Hill (Architectural Historian). The report includes a description of the house, site history, historical contexts, and evaluation as a Historic Resource. Includes appendices with 10 illustrations and 59 photographs.

    Record Type: Archive

    
14. Isse, the Shadow Generation - Matsueda, Tsukasa

    Isse, the Shadow Generation, 2006. By Tsukasa Matsueda, Ed. D. Illustrated. 98 pages.

    Record Type: Library

    
15. Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress - Hata, Donald Teruo and Nadine Ishitani

    Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress by Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata. First published in 1974; 3rd edition published 2006. Illustrated. 35 pages.

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16. Japanese Boys Day Display Items - Doll

    Japanese Boys Day Display Items. The display of two Japanese men hoisting carp has a wooden base painted black and men are porcelain dolls wearing Japanese attire and robes (also black). Connected to the base are two flowers and a tree. Also connected to the base is a crossed fence post, which serves a as a brace for a long black and white vertical rod. At the top of the rod are two eight-piece "sun" shape. Above the "sun" shape there is a small ...

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17. Japanese Boys Day Display Samurai Armor - Doll

    Japanese Boys Day Display Samurai Armor. Samurai armor is silver, gold, and black with orange string weaved throughout to hold armor together. The helmet is a silver piece with a "V" shaped gold piece rising above with a dragon figure resting on the top of the helmet.

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18. Japanese Boys Day Samurai Helmet Decoration - Decoration, Holiday

    Japanese Boys Day Samurai Helmet Decoration. Small Japanese Samurai Helmet. Part of the Japanese Boy's Day display, this small Japanese samurai helmet is very colorful. It consists of black, orange, jade, white, and gold. The primary color of the helmet's dome is textured black (raised bumps) with silver and gold inlays which are placed in a cross-like pattern. At the dome's center is a gold textured cap. On the underside of the dome is an orange...

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19. Japanese Emperor Dairi-hina Girl's Day Doll, n.d. - Doll

    Japanese Emperor Dairi-hina Girl's Day Doll, n.d. Emperor dairi-hina doll (A) that sits atop a Japanese Girls' Day display during Hina Matsuri "Festival of the hina dolls." Made in Japan. Male figure has white porcelain head and white plastic hands and feet. His short black hair is secured in a top-knot with brown cordage. He is wearing a brown and black robe printed with white birds (?) with orange and golden details. Figure has very broad...

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20. Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

    Red Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945. Carved and painted wood pin made in the Topaz Utah Internment Center. Fish has detailed carvings of fins, eyes, and mouth, as well as detailed scales painted on. Fish has a tall, oblong body with a tall, fringed dorsal fin and a slightly open mouth. Pin only displays fish in profile. Base color is dark yellow, with details in red, white, orange, and black. Reverse is partially painted in the base color, with a...

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21. Japanese Girls' Day Dolls, c. 1920s - Doll

    Japanese Girls' Day Dolls, c. 1920s. Display includes five porcelain dolls dressed in ceremonial robes. Two dolls are wearing gold robes with orange trim and both are holding Samurai swords and arrows. Dolls are in a seated position. One doll is dressed in a silver and purple robe wearing a head piece. This doll is holding a black rod and is in a seated position. One doll is dressed in a silver robe wearing a head piece. This doll is holding a bl...

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22. Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Sakazuki), 2018 - Cup, Saki

    Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Choko), 2018. Part of a red plastic Japanese New Year sake set that is made to look like lacquer. Sake cup is in the shape of a flat bowl sitting on a round base that is .5" high x 1.5" in diameter. Two gold colored pine symbols are painted in the bowl's interior and the rim is also painted gold. Part of a traditional Japanese New Year display.

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23. Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Sakazuki), 2018 - Cup, Saki

    Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Choko), 2018. Part of a red plastic Japanese New Year sake set that is made to look like lacquer. Sake is in the shape of a flat bowl sitting on a round base that is .5" high x 1.25" in diameter. Two gold colored bamboo leaf symbols are painted in the bowl's interior and the rim is also painted gold. Part of a traditional Japanese New Year display.

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24. Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Sakazuki), 2018 - Cup, Saki

    Japanese Sake Set Ceremonial Cup (Choko), 2018. Part of a red plastic Japanese New Year sake set that is made to look like lacquer. Sake is in the shape of a flat bowl sitting on a round base that is .5" high x 1.25" in diameter. Two gold colored Japanese apricot flower symbols are painted in the bowl's interior and the rim is also painted gold. Part of a traditional Japanese New Year display.

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25. Japanese Sake Set Measuring Cup (Masu), 2018 - Cup, Measuring

    Japanese Sake Set Measuring Cup (Masu), 2018. Part of a red plastic Japanese New Year sake set that is made to look like lacquer. Sake masu is a small plastic table with a cup attached to the top that would hold 1 fluid oz of liquid (go). Front and front top side of table are decorated with a tree design with a black trunk and gold branches and Japanese apricot (ume) flowers. There are also pine and bamboo sprigs on the side. Affixed cup si...

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