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![[Reading, sleepinig and practicing music in bachelor's dorm, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]](/internal/media/dispatcher/855/preview)
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[Reading, sleepinig and practicing music in bachelor's dorm, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Maker
Miné Okubo
(1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.65
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;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.
![[Bachelor's quarters in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]](/internal/media/dispatcher/854/thumbnail)
Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
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