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TITLE "Our Guard in the Watchtower Became a Spring Baseball Fan at Santa Fe" DESCRIPTION "Our Guard in the Watchtower Became a Spring Baseball Fan at Santa Fe" Watercolor, by Kango Takamura. "Very often we play baseball. This is the kitchen band. And always the umpire said "fifty-fifty" -- nobody wins or loses. And after that, they make noodles for people, you see. So people appreciate so much. This is the way we play. And sometimes the ball runs over the fence and then the guard would come down and get it. He liked it so much." Kango Takamura, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps CONTEXT "Kango Takamura (1895-1990) immigrated to the United States in 1921, lived in Hawaii, and moved to the mainland where he worked for Paramount Studios in New York and for RKO Studios in Los Angeles. He was interned in Santa Fe and Manzanar. Takamura returned to Los Angeles and RKO Studios after the war." The View From Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 CREDIT Kango Takamura Courtesy of Cornell University Press DATE 1942 |
