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Discomfort and restlessness on train trip from Tanforan to Topaz, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, carries oranges and lemons as she walks through train filled with exhausted passengers from Tanforan Assembly Center in California headed for the "Central Utah Relocation Center," a concentration camp in Topaz, Utah during World War II. Mine holds an armful of fruits at the far left of aisle that extends to right side between rows of grimacing people who hold their hands to their head, sleep or read on the two-night trip. The shades are drawn in background.
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- Title: Discomfort and restlessness on train trip from Tanforan to Topaz, 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, 2007.62.118)
- 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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