Receiving room assignments at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with a flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, leans over a table with her right knee on a bench while talking to a woman in charge of room assignments. Mine wears a vest over a short-sleeve top and skirt, and carries a bag across her shoulders. A jacket and wrapped parcel are placed on the bench beside her. A sack tagged with her family number, 13660, lies at her feet. To her right, a little girl sits on the bench, wearing a dress affixed with another number tag, 13740. A suitcase tagged with the same number sits in the foreground. Another woman stands in the right foreground.
- Title: Receiving room assignments at 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: 9.5 in, W: 13.5 in
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
- External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
- Medium: paper, ink
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.33)
- 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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