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    "url_title": "Seizo Murata",
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    "title": "Seizo Murata",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Seizo Murata\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      October 24 1904\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      April 24 1960\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Japan\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n        Issei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Seizo;\nLastName:Murata;\nDisplayName:Seizo Murata;\nBirthDate:1904-10-24;\nDeathDate:1960-04-24;\nBirthLocation:Japan;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Issei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Seizo Murata (1904-1960) was an\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n   Issei\n  </a>\n  dentist who also painted scenes of his World War II incarceration experience. He was born in Southern Honshu on October 24, 1904, and immigrated to San Francisco, California, in 1919. He graduated from the University of California at San Francisco in the 1930s with a degree in dentistry, and soon after established a thriving practice in Japantown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the United States entered World War II, Murata and his wife, Chisato Murata (who was born in Hawai'i), were sent first to the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tanforan_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Tanforan (detention facility)\">\n   Tanforan\n  </a>\n  Assembly Center and later to\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Topaz/\" title=\"Topaz\">\n   Topaz\n  </a>\n  , Utah. On his 1942\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/War_Relocation_Authority/\" title=\"War Relocation Authority\">\n   War Relocation Authority\n  </a>\n  record form, Murata checked the category for \"artists, sculptors and teachers of art\" as a potential occupation. A painting of Murata's (\"Untitled (Issei Man)\", 1944 Oil on board) was exhibited in the 1992 exhibition, \"\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20View%20from%20Within:%20Japanese%20American%20Art%20from%20the%20Internment%20Camps,%201942-1945%20(exhibition)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945\n  </a>\n  \" and to date, is his only known extant work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Following the war, he returned to San Francisco, where he re-established his dentistry business. He died on April 24, 1960, in San Francisco, California.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Patricia_Wakida/\" title=\"Patricia Wakida\">\n    Patricia Wakida\n   </a>\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Wakida, Patricia\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945\n    </i>\n    . Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240326010158\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.008 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.010 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 123/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1877/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 205/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    5.367      1 -total\n 47.10%    2.528      1 Template:Databox-People\n 26.13%    1.402      1 Template:Published\n 25.04%    1.344      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2221-0!canonical and timestamp 20240326010158 and revision id 36124\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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