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Reading, sleepinig and practicing music in bachelor's dorm, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942

Miné Okubo1942-1944

Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Woman with shoulder-length hair, Mine Okubo, observes a man playing a fue, Japanese flute, as another man tries to sleep in bachelor "dorm" in the racetrack grandstand of the Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. A balding, unshaven man in a striped vest plays the fue at his bed in foreground left; a flowerpot sits on bedside table. Another man lies on his proper left side on a bed covering his ears. Mine, in a cross-patterned top stands behind him at top right. The row of beds extends into the background, where another man sits on his bed reading. Another row of beds runs parallel at top left. Clothing and sheets are hung on ropes strung between the bedposts.

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  • Title: Reading, sleepinig and practicing music in bachelor's dorm, 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, 2007.62.65)
  • 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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