New Year Greeting Passing the Fan

Winter 2008
Volume 9 Number 1
New Year Greeting
Passing the Fan:
by Henry Sakamoto
Traditional Japanese
Dance in Oregon
The Board of Directors of Oregon
Nikkei Endowment (ONE) extends
its wishes for a Happy New Year. ONE sincerely appreciates your
support of its projects: The Japanese
American Historical Plaza and the
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.
Through these projects, and with
the help of many volunteers as well
as your financial support, ONE has
been able to carry out its mission. The mission is: to honor the courage and dedication of our Japanese
ancestors who immigrated to
Oregon; to tell the history of the
civil rights and human rights violations suffered by people of Japanese
ancestry because of their internment by the United States Government during World War II; to honor
resident aliens and Americans of
Japanese ancestry who gave their
lives on behalf of the United States
during past conflicts, including but
not limited to such persons who
served with the 442nd Regimental
Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service during World War II
and such persons who served in the
United States military during the
Korean action, the Viet Nam conflict and the Gulf and Iraq wars; and
to do any and all acts directly or
indirectly related to the foregoing.
by Becky Patchett
ONLC is fortunate to open the
new year with an exhibit about
traditional Japanese dance in
Oregon. It is our chance to
celebrate Oregon’s beloved master
teachers for Fujinami Kai and
Tachibana Studio who have taught
this art form to generations of students, passing on a rich heritage
and cultural tradition.
who conduct tours of the Japanese
American Historical Plaza; by
volunteers and staff, who arrange
and conduct tours of the cultural
exhibits at the Oregon Nikkei
Legacy Center.
While this message is a New
Year’s greeting, it is also a request
for volunteers from the younger
generation to help tell the history
of people of Japanese ancestry in
Oregon. This history must continue to be told in order that similar
violations of civil liberties and
rights will not happen again.
The story of the Japanese experience in Oregon is told by volunteers who are invited to speak to
classes in elementary schools,
high schools, community colleges
and universities; by volunteers
Nihon buyo is a celebrated art
form with roots tracing back to
the 16th century in Japan. Unlike Kabuki, Nihon buyo is most
often practiced by women, who
may play male roles on the stage,
performing special dances, with
beautiful sets and elaborate costumes helping to communicate
traditional stories and themes.
Passing the Fan will explore Nihon
buyo as an art form, the studentteacher relationship, and the
importance of dance as a way for
Nikkei students to connect with
their roots.
Passing the Fan: Traditional
Japanese Dance in Oregon opens
January 20, 2008. Reception is
from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. We hope to
see you at the opening!
Above: lion dancers
Left: Henry Sakamoto received ONE’s
Heart of the Community Award from
Mayor Tom Potter
Matsutake Hunt 2007 by Valerie Otani
(Excerpted from an upcoming article by this author for Nikkei Family Magazine published in the Bay Area.)
We are a varied crew, ranging
in age from our twenties to our
nineties, some newly arrived
from Japan, some decades ago,
from Oregon, Washington and
California, some American yonsei
and sansei who have never tasted
matsutake. Legacy Center sponsored this expedition to the southern Oregon coast to keep alive
matsutake traditions and create an
opportunity for sharing among the
generations.
Bill Otani, wildlife biologist with
the US Forest Service, host and
organizer, enlisted friends and
colleagues from the Forest Service
and the Bureau of Land Management to give us an orientation
to matsutake habitat and share
their knowledge of plants and
animals. The Forest Service made
vans available, in active support
of maintaining traditional cultural
connections to the forests.
An unexpected bonus was the
guidance of a professional matsutake picker who has been
harvesting in the area for twenty
years. He took us into the woods,
walking along side us, pointing
out the subtle mounding of the
earth that indicated a mushroom
beneath the surface. A patient
teacher, he made sure that each
of us learned to spot the lift of the
soil, and then stepped aside to let
us enjoy the elation of pushing
back the sandy dirt to reveal the
pure white treasure below. There
are many false starts, of course.
The bump turned out to be a tree
root, or the firm place as we pat
the moss was a rock. But eventually we found picture perfect
“tsubomi,” the premium grade,
and unopened matsutake from
beneath the soil.
Matsutake has a mythic place in
Nikkei culture. This mushroom’s
distinctive aroma—spicy and
earthy—flavors steaming pots
of matsutake gohan, or elevates
sukiyaki to a special occasion. The
mountains around Portland have
been favorite hunting grounds for
generations. Each fall, a buzz runs
through the community waiting
for the first rains. Has the summer
been too dry? Are they getting
them yet? Is it a plentiful year?
Will the snows come too early,
cutting the season short? Families’
favorite gathering grounds are
guarded secrets.
That night when we returned to
the motel, Bill organized a dinner showcasing the bounty of the
Northwest. His friend from Newport brought bushels of fresh oysters
served raw or grilled with shoyu
and lemon. Chitoshi and Takako
from Salem prepared a gigantic pot
of fragrant matsutake gohan. With
barbequed salmon and chicken and
corn from a farm stand along the
way, we were treated to an amazing feast. Out of suitcases come
homemade pickles, kinpira gobo
and fresh cookies. A stockholder in
a Northwest microbrewery added
his shareholder benefits of outstanding beer.
The goal of the outing was the
matsutake. We each had our stash
of matsutake, ready to become
special meals or gifts to family and
friends. We have new respect for
the knowledge of the woods needed to be a good mushroom hunter.
We will go to the Japanese market
and gloat over the superior quality
of our matsutake compared to the
ones in Styrofoam trays for $60.00
a pound.
But the heart of the trip was
strengthening our cultural connections. We experienced the thrill of
spending beautiful autumn days in
the woods, gathering our ancestral
treasure. We shared stories, recipes
and made new friends from different generations and different
homelands. Through matsutake
we have become a community.
Left: The 2007 group of matsutake hunters; center: Takako Schaumburg & Chitoshi Donahe make matsutake
gohan (rice); right: Toru Watanabe & Michelle Fujii
The prize: matsutake!
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ONE Strategic Plan
Now Being Prepared
by David Yamashita
Over the last six months, Oregon Nikkei Endowment’s Strategic Planning Committee has been
working to prepare its first strategic plan. The plan
is important to the future of ONE, as it addresses
many of the issues people had encountered as they
worked on the organization’s projects and programs.
Since 1988, when it was created, ONE has grown
considerably to the point where it became difficult
to operate as efficiently as it should.
The ONE Strategic Planning Committee first identified the organization’s issues and problems. Once
that was done, it focused on a few critical issues
and studied how they could be resolved. The organizational structure of ONE surfaced as an important factor and thus, the committee spent much time
discussing its options. One of the committee’s key
recommendations, which the ONE board approved
in December, is to simplify the organizational
structure. The Legacy Center, Historical Plaza, Development Committee, and Executive Director will
report directly to the ONE board. This should result
in more direct and efficient communication among
all ONE programs. Other changes will undoubtedly
occur, but they will be designed to support this new
basic structure.
Committee members include people from all parts
of ONE, including the Legacy Center, the Historical
Plaza, and the Development Committee. It comprises
Lynn Grannan, Ed Kawasaki, Connie Masuoka,
Judy Murase, Valerie Otani, Hank Sakamoto, June
Schumann, and David M. Yamashita. The committee has been guided by Cliff Jones, a consultant with
Technical Assistance to Community Services (TACS).
The impetus for this strategic planning effort came
from a grant initiated by June Schumann and the
Legacy Center through the Meyer Memorial Trust.
There’s more to come over the next few months,
which will be reported as progress is made.
Japanese American
Historical Plaza
by Scott Murase & Judy Murase
Plans are in place to repair and replace damaged
areas at the Historical Plaza by next spring. The
Oregon Nikkei Endowment’s Plaza Committee will
be overseeing the repair and maintenance, which is
to be completed to coincide with the City of Portland’s
Waterfront/Ankeny improvements. ONE President,
Henry Sakamoto, served as a member of the PDC/
City of Portland Advisory Committee for these improvements. Some of the planned works adjacent
to the Plaza include new elements designed for the
area under the Burnside Bridge including Saturday
Market and an interactive fountain. With the addition of Mercy Corps and the University of Oregon
coming to Old Town, the Plaza will benefit from the
changing surroundings. We hope many more
visitors will come to appreciate the Historical
Plaza and learn about our unique history of
forced evacuation and internment and the
importance of the Bill of Rights.
Exhibit Programming
Vision: 2008-2009
by Becky Patchett & June Arima Schumann
The Exhibit and Programs Committee has just
finished planning for future exhibits and programs
at ONLC, and we are excited about upcoming possibilities. We continue to grow in our knowledge
about the past as well as gaining understanding on
how Nikkei heritage influences life in the 21st Century. 2008 is the tenth anniversary of the founding
of the Legacy Center. The committee, composed
of Dale Gronso, Valerie Otani, Dick Sakurai, June
Schumann, and Hiroshi Yamauchi, has outlined
plans that include a revisit to a popular exhibit from
1989, ONLC’s inaugural year. Plans also incorporate inclusion of a larger part of Oregon’s Nikkei
history. Here are some highlights of what’s being
planned for 2008-09.
• May: Photographic exhibit about Nisei veterans
by Motoya Nakamura, first published by The
Oregonian in 2004 as “Fighting Prejudice on Two
Fronts,” will be presented with updates.
• August: The exhibit, “A League of Their Own:
Oregon Nisei Baseball 1930-49,” originally curated
by Miki Yasui in 1998, will be brought back to celebrate the amateur baseball teams that flourished
during the first half of 20th Century.
• Winter: A new panel will be convened this spring
to consider art exhibits during winter 2008 as
another angle for presenting the mission of ONLC
to share the culture of Oregon Nikkei.
• We are exploring funding opportunities to support “Shodo: The Way of The Brush,” a calligraphy
exhibit to be guest curated by Shirley Kishiyama,
to explore teaching traditions, poetry, culture and
religion.
• Grant funding from Oregon Heritage Commission
and the State Library Association will help ONLC
develop a statewide traveling exhibit, Oregon
Nikkei History on the Road, specially timed for
Oregon’s statehood sesquicentennial in 2009. The
exhibit will be shown in libraries statewide as part
of “Oregon Reads 2009.” Featured books for this
program will be Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler,
and Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff.
• A special committee will be convened soon to
conduct research at ONLC and other archives.
The first project will be to complete documentation for our database, and to develop an exhibit
about how and why Oregon’s Japanese community leaders were arrested by the FBI without
charges on or shortly after December 7, 1941 and
held for the duration of World War II in Department of Justice Internment Camps. This important
story of “the other camps” has not yet been told
and is planned for late 2009.
If you are interested in participating (actively!),
please call Becky Patchett at (503) 224-1458 or
email becky@oregonnikkei.org.
The Legacy Center needs your help!
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center is in frequent need of docents to
greet visitors during our weekend exhibit hours. Docenting at the
Legacy Center is a great way to get more involved in the Nikkei
community. The duties of a docent are simple, but you’ll make a
big difference for visitors as a friendly representative of the Legacy
Center. And, you are rewarded with unexpected new acquaintances. You never know who you might meet or what interesting
stories visitors may share with you. The Legacy Center needs more
volunteers to maintain our Saturday and Sunday exhibit hours. If
you have two to three hours to give, please consider volunteering
as a docent by calling 503-224-1458 or e-mailing:
info@oregonnikkei.org.
We’d Like to
Hear From You!
If you have suggestions or wishes for new exhibits, programs
and activities at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center or the Japanese American Historical Plaza,
please let us know! We would
love to hear your ideas. Please
e-mail info@oregonnikkei.org to
let us know your thoughts or to
get involved.
Book Corner
Japanese American college students from camps
to colleges during World War II. From our book
reviewer, Dick Sakurai: “…it is a book of high
value and will be of interest not only to scholars,
but also to many others who just want to know all
about what happened.”
by Kiyo Endecott
The Legacy Center has added several new titles to
our gift shop recently. Stop by and browse, or shop
online at www.oregonnikkei.org/shop to find new
books and gift ideas.
• American Inquisition: the Hunt for Japanese
American Disloyalty in World War II, by Eric L.
Muller. From the book jacket: “Based entirely on
new archival research, American Inquisition …
examines the complex inner workings of the most
draconian system of loyalty screening that the
American government has ever deployed against
its own citizens. At a time when the nation again
finds itself beset by worries about an “enemy
within” identifiable by race or religion, this volume offers crucial lessons from a recent and
disastrous history.”
• To Breathe the Sky, by Grace Takahashi. Written
by a native Oregonian, this novel is about a
Japanese immigrant living in Portland who is sent
to Justice Department camps for enemy aliens
while his family ends up in Minidoka.
Spring and Summer
Internships Available
ONLC is seeking students interested in gaining work
experience in a professional setting. Interns will
have hands-on opportunities to work on projects
related to collections management in a one-of-akind small ethnic museum. Interns will learn about
basic documentation, cataloguing, storage, database
entry and access procedures for historical artifacts,
photographs, and archival materials, and will work
on a specific cataloguing, inventory or digitization
project during their stay. Interns with a specific
project in mind are welcome to discuss opportunities. For more information, contact us at:
info@oregonnikkei.org.
• Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration, by Karen L. Ishizuka. The
Japanese American National Museum created
an exhibit curated by Ishizuka, “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese
American Experience,” and she relates her experiences in this book. Our
book reviewer, Dick
Sakurai, writes: “This
book really makes me
wish I had seen the exhibit and had interacted
with it…it gives a good
picture of the Nikkei
and how [the exhibit]
shows their story.”
Save These Dates!
January 20, 1:00-3:00. “Passing the Fan” exhibit
opening reception at the Legacy Center
January 27, 12:00-4:00. Mochitsuki 2008, public
event at PCC, Sylvania Campus
February 8,9,16, 8:00 PM. “Okage Sama De (I am
what I am, because of you). A new show by Alton
Takiyama-Chung, Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside,
Portland.
Mid-March (subject to weather). Cherry Blossom
Walk at the Historical Plaza.
May 9, 4:30-6:30. Motoya Nakamura’s
Photo Exhibit opens at the Legacy Center
June 20-22. Minidoka Pilgrimage
• From Concentration Camp to Campus:
Japanese American Students and World
War II, by Allan W. Austin. The story of
the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, which was
created to facilitate the movement of
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Kiyo Endecott, Office Manager
Rebecca Patchett, Director of
Collections & Exhibits
Contributing writers:
Kiyo Endecott
Judy Murase
Scott Murase
Valerie Otani
Becky Patchett
Henry Sakamoto
June Arima Schumann
David Yamashita
Graphic design: Connie Cho
Editor: John Schumann
Misa Kodama, Hannah Honma & Carolyn Woody arrange the Osechi Ryori vegetable layer.
ONE Board of Directors
Henry Sakamoto, President
George Katagiri,+ V. President
Lynn Grannan,+ Secretary
Chip Larouche, Treasurer
Kurtis Inouye
Rich Iwasaki*
Edward Kawasaki+
Michiko Kornhauser+
William Koida
Nobuko Masuoka+
Judy Murase** +
Scott Murase+
David Yamashita**
* Board Liaison on ONLC
**Board Liaison on Development
Historical Plaza Committee
+Also members of Plaza
Committee
ONLC Committee
Valerie Otani
Henry Mishima
Amy Peterson
Connie Masuoka
Masako Hinatsu
Doug Katagiri
Ernest Tsukuda
Andrew Uzunoe
Development Committee
George Azumano
Sho Dozono
Ron Iseri
William Koida
Rick Saito
Andrew Uzunoe
Sarah Yasutake
Grant Yoshihara