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Incarceration Years: Lordsburg/Santa Fe, Seagoville, Amache Camp Photos and DOJ Documents

Rev. Wada Psalm 121 Woodblock Print


Published: Aug. 6, 2012 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

Rev. Wada's woodblock while incarcerated in Santa Fe DOJ Detention Center.  Same scenery as a NJAHS  Santa Fe Detention Center signed handkerchief.  Uncle Kunio Homma thinks his grandfather came to Amache with the woodblock print.


WARE (I) 山にむかひて YAMA NI MUKAITE (at the mountains) 目をあぐ ME O AGU (look up)


わが助けは WAGA TASUKE WA (help for me) 何処より来たる IZUKO YORI KITARUYA (where it comes from?)


天地を造りたまへる TENCHI O TSUKURI TAMAERU, エホバより来る EHOBA YORI KITARU (it comes from Jehovah who created heaven and earth) ... 1 2 1" from Jehovah ...121

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Incarceration Years: Lordsburg/Santa Fe, Seagoville, Amache Camp Photos and DOJ Documents
Homma Family Photos of Amache and Wada Family DOJ documents.  Rev. Masahiko Wada was an American Baptist minister for First Baptist Church, Garden Grove, Terminal Island Baptist Mission, Moneta / Gardena Valley Baptist Church (1929-1940) a…
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