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1945 watercolor painting by Toshiko D. Hamaoka titled Boy’s Festival in May. Shows celebration of Boy’s Day with boys in the streets and flying carp banners (koinobori) hanging from poles between barracks at the Tule Lake concentration camp during World War II.

Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Charlotte Opler Sagoff, 2002.142.2.

JANM — Last modified Apr 09 2021 1:30 a.m.


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