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Patricia Wakida is a yonsei writer, artist and cultural worker. She was born the year of the dog in San Diego, California and raised between Honolulu, Hawaii and Fresno, California. Patricia has worked as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan and as an apprentice letterpress printer and hand bookbinder in California; she maintains her own linoleum block and letterpress business under the Wasabi Press imprint.
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Masako Miki’s Conceptual Midnight March at Institute for Contemporary Art San Francisco
In a magical subterranean installation at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) San Francisco cu…
Nov. 4, 2025
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How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 2
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Since 1910, Los Angeles has boasted the largest population of Japanese Americans in…
May 24, 2022
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How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 1
Back in the mid-1940s, a Mrs. Lopez called up Kashu Realty in L.A.’s Crenshaw district and asked to…
May 23, 2022
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Erica Kaminishi: Presenting a Brazilian Nikkei Identity through Art - Part 2
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Later, you returned to Japan as a graduate student and stayed for many years, worki…
Feb. 20, 2018
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Erica Kaminishi: Presenting a Brazilian Nikkei Identity through Art - Part 1
Artist Erica Kaminishi, born and raised in Mato Gross, Brazil, is one of the hundreds of thousands …
Feb. 19, 2018
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Albert Saijo: Karmic Heart
When the phone rang unexpectedly early one morning in 2009, I couldn’t believe it, but it was Alber…
July 5, 2013
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Gompers Saijo (1922-2003) - A Life Long Artist: from Art Students League Heart Mountain to the Shadow of Mt. Tamalpais
It is no great surprise that Eric Saijo’s home is surrounded by a profusion of California native pl…
June 19, 2013
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Language and Silence—The Poetry of Asano Miyata Saijo (1891-1966)
In July 1932, on the occasion of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, The Kashu Mainichi ran an article w…
June 5, 2013
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