Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita

by Barbara Johns

Book Overview

This beautiful and poignant biography of Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita uses his paintings and wartime diary to vividly illustrate the experiences, uncertainties, joys, and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II internment and the more optimistic times that preceded it. Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s, he was established as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295749695
• ISBN13: 9780295749693
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 8.7"