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TITLE "Lucky Cloud (Santa Fe)" DESCRIPTION "Lucky Cloud (Santa Fe)" Watercolor, by Kango Takamura CONTEXT "One day we saw a wonderful cloud to the South. It was evening time. Oh, it was a big cloud. All pink. I had never seen this kind of cloud before. Really I was surprised. So we called it a "lucky cloud." "Look at the cloud. It won't be long, this war," we said. So everybody was very happy. We say it is a "lucky cloud" -- sign that war is over. This is atomic test, I think. But it was a bit early then, so many people think that's odd. But I don't know. Still I don't know." Kango Takamura, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps CREDIT Kango Takamura Courtesy of Cornell University Press DATE 1942 |
