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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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Photographs taken by Yon Shimizu, a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War, along with hundreds of other Japanese-Canadian men. In 1942, he worked along with several dozen other men as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe, equidistant from Sarnia, London and Chatham. These are photographs he took of the sugarbeet harvest, and were digitized from a DVD of Yon Shimizu’s scrapbook by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. All dated 1942 though they definitely show a range of time during that summer and fall - final harvesting of sugarbeets is in late October or November, and the last photo shows the men huddling from the cold in November.

1) At Glencoe train station; the ‘49′ Gang, according to the caption. Left to right: Tsutomu "Stum" Shimizu, E. Ono, T. Okamoto, T. Kuwabara.

2) Blocking 48 Gang, that is, thinning or "blocking" the sugar beets; left to right: S. Miyashita, Y. Madokoro, S. Kawahara, J. Henmi.

3) “He-Men.” Left to right: B. Hoita, K. Goto, T. Hoita.

4) “Siesta Time!” T. Okamoto taking a siesta during the beet harvest.

5) “Block Busters!” Showing off some huge sugarbeets during the thinning (blocking) process.

6) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Butch Hoita and Stum Shimizu.

7) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tommy Hoita and Tomo Okamoto.

8) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Stum Okamoto and Esao Ono.

9) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tom Kuwabara and Yon Shimizu. Toppers defoliate the beets as close to harvesting as possible.

10) Lunch, Cold November Day

#japanese canadian internment #internment camps #japanese canadians #canadian history #farm camp #nikkei #nikkei kanadajin #canada during world war 2 #dictatorship within democracy #relocation camp #defence of canada regulations #glencoe #kent county #chatham #london ontario #racism in canada #black and white photography #archival photography

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marivanilla05 · 3 months

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I saw a screenshot of this episode, and I was reminded that I rewatched it (and recorded some scenes) last month. Anyway, just thought some of you might want to see it.

(edit: added the tag "out of context detco dub" to all the related videos on my blog for easier searching)

#dcmk #ran mouri #conan edogawa #kogoro mouri #ran's VA absolutely destroyed me in the first scenes #and of course kogoro's VA being iconic as usual #kogoro literally being japanese taking (and flunking) a japanese class just to explain how he knew the word “king” dubwise is hilarious #like if we're talking about the dub series the characters are supposedly american?#but i know in movie 6 (at least) they're japanese?#i know its just funimation and their weird choice of localization (canadian heiji!) but i find it funny #out of context detco dub

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966.

As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing.

The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University.

Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally.

The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments!

This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko.

View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.

View our other Staff Picks.

- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#staff pick of the week #The Tale of The Shining Princess #hisako matsubara #naoko matsubara #Japanese artists #Japanese writers #Japan #AAPI Hertitage Month #Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AAPI #canadian artists #trade edition #Matsubara #woodcuts #printmaking #color printmaking #fiction #stories #teddy

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eggplantgifs · 4 months

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Kazuki Tomono: Underground » 2023 Japanese Nationals

#kazuki tomono #fskateedit #figure skating #japanese nationals 2023 #JN 2023 #program #request #this sp is very canadian but it works for him #i love how he flies into the stsq #i can't believe this is the last time we'll see his programs at a major competition this season :(

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haveyouseenthisseries-poll · 2 days

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#tv shows #tv series #polls #cybersix #cathy weseluck #michael dobson #alex doduk #1990s series #argentinian series #canadian series #japanese series #have you seen this series poll

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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months

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Left: Tom Thomson, Moonlight, Winter 1915-16

Right: Kawase Hasui, Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach (Haru no tsuki [Ninomiya kaigan]), 1932

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science70 · 8 months

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Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 1963.

Architect: Raymond Moriyama

#architecture #brutalism #Raymond Moriyama #Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre #Toronto #Canada #1960s

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fishing-lesbian-catgirl · 11 months

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I think it’s incredibly unfair that people in the otherside picnic fandom regularly act like Toriko is brainless. Is she smart? Not especially. But when the other major characters that you can compare her to are a woman who is so autistic that she memorized everything about every even mildly popular scary story on the internet, a neuroscientist, and an ex-yakuza who has been dealing with the supernatural events of the otherside since the 90s, it’s unfair to her to see the disparity in knowledge and call her dumb. She could tell you more than you’d ever want to know about guns and military equipment and how to use them. But because her areas of expertise aren’t as prevalent to the story and because she’s the blonde woman who happens to know the least about the supernatural events that are main focus of the books, she gets a fandom reputation of being dumb and brainless.

#this is like my only real gripe from talking to some otherside picnic fans #don’t you understand? if Toriko knew more the story wouldn’t have someone to explain everything that YOU don’t know to #no she’s not a genius but like you would do any better in her place #also her being the Canadian who isn’t particularly aware of Japanese customs also makes her seem less intelligent to some degree #otherside picnic

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gennsoup · 2 years

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She did not care for the company of humans, because they were small and bothersome. She just watched the birds in the trees and picked mushrooms in the forest. Her life with herself was complete and she felt little need to ever change it.

Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms

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fromtheseventhhell · 28 days

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People from all across the world being able to freely travel to Israel, join the IDF, and participate in a genocide with no repercussions is such a difficult concept for me to wrap my mind around

#Isnotreal is committing a genocide unchecked so it's not surprising but it's also just...#you shouldn't be able to fly out to participate in a genocide and then return home like nothing happened #american canadian european japanese etc. citizens are receiving dual-citizenship from Israel and somehow??? we're supposed to just #accept that it's them /returning home/ and that said people have more right to that land then Palestinians?#what's terrifying is that their propaganda machine isn't entirely ineffective #even if the majority of people on social media see it for the bullshit colonizing it is there are still people who fall for that narrative #this is why it's so important to educate yourself and share resources to others #free palestine #palestine

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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Photographs taken by Yon Shimizu, a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War, along with hundreds of other Japanese-Canadian men. In 1942, he worked along with several dozen other men as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe, equidistant from Sarnia, London and Chatham. These are photographs he took of the tobacco harvest, and were digitized from a DVD of Yon Shimizu’s scrapbook by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive and the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library. All dated 1942 though they definitely show a range of time during that summer, likely in August. Notably, in a number of these pictures the internees are mingling and working alongside white farm labourers and farmers.

1) “Sheiks.” Left to right: Tomo, "Killer", Stum, relaxing near the farm house of the tobacco fields they would be harvesting.

2) “Where's The End?” Yon Shimizu, the photographer, becomes the subject, standing in the tobacco fields.

3) In The Tobacco Fields. Left to right: Hama, Ono, Shimizu, Hoita, Tosa, Kuwabara.

4) “In Action!”

5) Transporting The Tobacco Leaves.

6) “To The Kiln.” The kiln was used to store, steam, cure, and then pack the tobacco into bales for auction.

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supersoftly · 6 days

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Just read an article about indigenous artists in Canada being called out for their art not being "indigenous enough" and honestly, I'm gonna be real with you, I think you guys set yourselves up for this problem :T

#canadian politics #you go to any museum/indigenous centre have the same art for years... didnt think the propagation of a single style would alienate others?#the author claimed canada is restricting his abilities to expand but like... brother. none of us get those benefits #if i sold my art as JAPANESE ART and it looked like scott pilgrim youd get the same issue js #just feels like a reaping/sowing moment

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itsthebigguy123 · 3 months

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Here is a second OC for my drawing project! Her name is Princess Moonstone - and she's a Japanese-Canadian magical girl. Even though I just do scribbles right now, I hope I'll be good enough someday.

A magical girl since her teenage years, she has become a 24-years old accountant and desk jockey in the current day. Stoic, seemingly aloof and socially awkward, yet with a heart of gold, she's a friend of Shatterproof. Eventually, their relationship may grow deeper than that...

Made by KujiKawaii, hit him up on Twitter for a commission

#Japanese-Canadian #Magical Girl #Superhero #superheroes #oc #original character

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ivettel · 2 years

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