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Departure by train from Tanforan, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, sits beside her brother, Toku, as they leave Tanforan Assembly Center in California on a train headed for "Central Utah Relocation Center," the concentration camp in Topaz, Utah during World War II. Toku leans forward with hands clasped in foreground next to Mine who sits beside the train window below the luggage stored on racks near ceiling. Outside Tanforan inmates wave from the train station, including the roof where they hold a sign, "Goodbye, See you in Utah."
Details
- Title: Departure by train from Tanforan, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
- External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
- Medium: paper, ink, mat board
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.117)
- Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.
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