01/25/2025
Hats off to my incredible friend and previous real estate client Tomiko . Her incredible art is now displayed in the for all to see. She has lived an incredibly full and tumultuous life all over the bay area starting her life in the american japanese internment camps in the 1940’s . She has called Sonoma her home for a decade or so and when i helped her relocate a few years ago we became fast friends . She is funny and kind and i’m proud to know this lively human . Head on over to the incredible new exhibit at Sonoma Museum and check out the art . This seasons show is all about Japanese paper art and it’s pretty cool. Wednesday is free to all . Tomiko is also selling her handmade cards in the Museum shop , so support your locals artists and pop by and grab one !
From wiki: During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens. These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following the outbreak of war with the Empire of Japan in December 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei (‘second generation’; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei (‘third generation’, the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei (‘first generation’) immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory’s population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.
