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[Two Issei men playing Japanese board games, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Two Issei men playing Japanese board games, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Two Issei men playing Japanese board games, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

[Two Issei men playing Japanese board games, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumink, paper
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.106
DescriptionA woman, Mine Okubo, watches two Issei men play a game of goh on a bench outside barrack 16. The two men, both in wide-brimmed hats, sit on the bench with the board and game pieces, in a bowl, placed between them. A third man, with his back to the viewer, watches while seated on a folding stool.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in.

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