The Hope of Another Spring

Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness

Barbara Johns (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2017
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99999-9 (ISBN)

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Takuichi Fujii (1891–1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic Japanese located on the West Coast. Sent to detention camps at Puyallup, Washington, and then Minidoka in Idaho, Fujii documented his daily experiences in words and art. The Hope of Another Spring reveals the rare find of a large and heretofore unknown collection of art produced during World War II. The centerpiece of the collection is Fujii's illustrated diary that historian Roger Daniels has called "the most remarkable document created by a Japanese American prisoner during the wartime incarceration."

Barbara Johns presents Takuichi Fujii's life story and his artistic achievements within the social and political context of the time. Sandy Kita, the artist's grandson, provides translations and an introduction to the diary. The Hope of Another Spring is a significant contribution to Asian American studies, American and regional history, and art history.

Barbara Johns, PhD, is a Seattle-based art historian and curator. She is the author of Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita.

Foreword by Roger Daniels

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Another Spring: Biography

2. Painting and Recognition in the 1930s

3. An Issei Diary of World War II

4. Public and Private: Expanding upon the Diary

5. Abstract Expressions

MinidokaXX The Art Diary of Takuichi Fujii

Introduction to the Diary: The Nature of the Workand of Its Translation, by Sandy Kita

Art Diary / Takuichi Fujii

Transcription by Honda Shōjō

Translation by Sandy Kita with Honda Shōjō

Appendix 1. Artist Statement

Appendix 2. Exhibition History

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Hope of Another Spring
Einführung	Sandy Kita
Vorwort	Roger Daniels
Zusatzinfo	178 illus., 66 in color
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1270 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-295-99999-3 / 0295999993
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99999-9 / 9780295999999
Zustand	Neuware