Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, stands near a barracks in center field where children play at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. The head and shoulders of Mine in a cross-patterned shirt and a man in a hat are visible in foreground, bottom left. Three children play in area in front of barracks, where steps lead into the individual living quarters. A person sits on one stoop; potted plants sit on table between steps and a clotheline hangs in front. A nameplate hangs over the doorway at the end of the barracks, left. Another barracks is partially visible behind it.
- Title: Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, 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, 2007.62.84)
- 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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