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Fiction
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Painting

Fiction

[Library department of the Tule Lake Seinen Dan]

A description of the library, numbering at around 5,000 volumes, at Tule Lake Camp. Describes staffing, rules, circulation, and membership. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sjs_sch_0063
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Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, January 29, 1993

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin in which she discusses where Chin should publish his story "Kaguya Hime." Weglyn also writes about health problems she is having and how that affects her work. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_09_003
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Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, March 23, 1991

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin in which she praises Chin's book "Donald Duk" and orders 20 autographed copies. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_08_015
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Letter from Pat [Cummings] to Michi Weglyn, January 22, 1993

A letter from Pat Cummings to Michi Weglyn about a story of Frank Chin's that they both think should be published. The author of the letter is probably children's book author and illustrator Pat Cummings. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_09_004
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Plays

Hiroshi Kashiwagi Interview Segment 11

Description of play written about the camp experience and the loyalty issue

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews …

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Hiroshi Kashiwagi Interview Segment 7

Years later, writing a play about the loyalty issue

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Stories waiting to be told: the wilderness within

A flyer for a play, "Stories waiting to be told: the wilderness within," written and performed by Jude Narita and directed by Charlie Stratton. It is "a one-woman play celebrating Asian and Asian American women as they redefine their identity within the American Dream." The play was performed at Los …
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Painting

Hatsuko Mary Higuchi Segment 12

Attending an art workshop taught by noted Japanese American artist Henry Fukuhara
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchi Segment 15

Discussion and showing of paintings
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchi Segment 13

Connecting with mother in her later life through artwork
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