Excelsiors

Excelsiors

The 1899 Excelsiors. The first organized Japanese American baseball squad.

Coming from a country with such a strong interest in baseball, it is not surprising that the Issei (Japanese immigrants) started their own teams shortly after settling in the US In 1899, the first known Japanese American team – the Excelsiors – was organized in Honolulu. Within a decade, many more teams were formed across the islands and highly competitive leagues developed. Mirroring the ethnic divisions in Hawaiian society, these leagues formed along ethnic lines, with Japanese American teams competing against Chinese American, Portuguese, Hawaiian, and haole teams.

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Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida

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Yoshiko Uchida
Born	November 24, 1921(1921-11-24) Alameda, California United States
Died	June 21, 1992 (aged 70) United States
Occupation	short story writer, editor, Novelist, children’s book author
Genres	fiction, folktales
Literary movement	Folk Art Movement
Relative(s)	Dwight Uchida (birth father), Iku Uchida (mother), Keiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (November 24, 1921 – June 21, 1992) was a Japanese American writer.

Contents [hide] 1 Life 2 Bibliography 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

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[edit] Life

Yoshiko Uchida was the daughter of Japanese immigrants Takashi and Iku Uchida. Her father came to the United States from Japan in 1903 and worked for the San Francisco offices of Mitsui and Company. Yoshiko and her sister Keiko were both nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans, born in the United States.

By the age of 10, Uchida was writing stories. “Being the child of frugal immigrant parents, I wrote them on brown wrapping paper which I cut up and bound into booklets… I also kept a journal of important events which began the day I graduated from elementary school…. By putting these special happenings into words and writing them down, I was trying to hold onto and preserve the magic as well as the joy and sadness of certain moments of my life… I guess that’s really what books and writing are really about.” ^[1]

Yoshiko Uchida graduated early from high school and enrolled at University of California, Berkeley at sixteen. The Uchidas were living in Berkeley, California and Yoshiko was in her senior year at U.C. Berkeley when the Japanese attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Soon after, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans on the west coast to be rounded up and imprisoned in internment camps. Thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans, regardless of their U.S. citizenship, lost their homes, property, jobs, civil liberties and human dignity.

The Uchidas were not spared. Takashi was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and he and his family, including Yoshiko, were interned for three years, first at Tanforan Racetrack in California and then in Topaz, Utah. In the camps, Yoshiko taught school and had the chance to view not only the injustices which the Americans were perpetrating, but the varying reactions of Japanese Americans towards their ill-treatment.

In 1943 Uchida was accepted to graduate school at Smith College in Massachusetts and allowed to leave the camp, but her years there left a deep impression. Her 1971 novel Journey to Topaz is fiction but closely follows her own experiences, and many of her other books deal with issues of ethnicity, citizenship, identity, and cross-cultural relationships.

Over the course of her career Uchida published more than thirty books, including nonfiction for adults and fiction for children and teenagers. She died in 1992.

Uchida became widely known for her 1982 autobiography Desert Exile, one of several important autobiographical works by Japanese Americans who were interned that portray internment as a pivotal moment in the formation of the author’s personal and cultural identities.

She is also known for her children’s novels, having been praised as “almost single-handedly creating a body of Japanese American literature for children, where none existed before.” ^[2]. In addition to Journey to Topaz, many of her other novels including Picture Bride, A Jar of Dreams and The Bracelet deal with Japanese American impressions of major historical events including World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, and the racism endured by Japanese Americans during these years.

“I try to stress the positive aspects of life that I want children to value and cherish. I hope they can be caring human beings who don’t think in terms of labels–foreigners or Asians or whatever–but think of people as human beings. If that comes across, then I’ve accomplished my purpose.”^[3]

[edit] Bibliography

This is a partial list of Uchida’s published work.

• The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
• The Terrible Leak
• Picture Bride
• The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales (1949)
• New Friends for Susan (1951)
• The Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales from Japan (1955)
• The Full Circle (1957)
• Takao and Grandfather’s Sword (1958)
• The Promised Year (1959)
• Mik and the Prowler (1960)
• Rokubei and the Thousand Rice Bowls (1962)
• The Forever Christmas Tree (1963)
• Sumi’s Prize (1964)
• The Sea of Gold, and Other Tales from Japan (1965)
• In-Between Maya (1967)
• Hisako’s Mysteries (1969)
• Sumi and the Goat and the Tokyo Express (1969)
• Makoto, The Smallest Boy (1970)
• Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese American Evacuation (1971)
• Samurai of Gold Hill (1972)
• The Birthday Visitor (1975)
• The Rooster who Understood Japanese (1976)
• The Bracelet (1976)
• originally published as a short story, Journey Home (1978)
• Jar of Dreams (1981)
• Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family (Autobiography) (1982)
• A Jar of Dreams (1981)
• Best Bad Thing (1983)
• The Happiest Ending (1985)
• Picture Bride (1987)
• Invisible Thread: An Autobiography (1991)
• Magic Purse (1993)
• Two Foolish Cats
• The Magic Purse
• The Birthday Visitor
• Sumi’s Prize
• The Wise Old Woman

[edit] Awards

• Ford Foundation research fellowship in Japan, 1952
• Children’s Spring Book Festival honor award, New York Herald Tribune, 1955, for The Magic Listening Cap
• Notable Book citation, American Library Association, 1972, for Journey to Topaz
• Medal for best juvenile book by a California author, Commonwealth Club of California, 1972, for Samurai of Gold Hill;
• Award of Merit, California Association of Teachers of English, 1973
• Citation, Contra Costa chapter of Japanese American Citizens League, 1976, for outstanding contribution to the cultural development of society
• Morris S. Rosenblatt Award, Utah State Historical Society, 1981, for article, “Topaz, City of Dust”
• Distinguished Service Award, University of Oregon, 1981
• Commonwealth Club of California medal, 1982, for A Jar of Dreams
• Award from Berkeley Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League, 1983
• School Library Journal, Best Book of the Year citation, 1983, for The Best Bad Thing
• New York Public Library, Best Book of the Year citation, 1983, for The Best Bad Thing
• Best Book of 1985 citation, Bay Area Book Reviewers, 1985, for The Happiest Ending
• Child Study Association of America, Children’s Book of the Year citation, 1985, for The Happiest Ending
• San Mateo and San Francisco Reading Associations, Young Authors’ Hall of Fame award, 1985, for The Happiest Ending
• Friends of Children and Literature award, 1987, for A Jar of Dreams
• Japanese American of the Biennium award, Japanese American Citizens Leagues, 1988, for outstanding achievement

[edit] References

1. ^ Grice, Helena. “Yoshiko Uchida” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 312: Asian American Writers. Gale, 2005.
2. ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography, accessed 7 Nov 2006
3. ^ Grice, Helena. “Yoshiko Uchida” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 312: Asian American Writers. Gale, 2005.

[edit] External links

Literature Portal

• Guide to the Yoshiko Uchida papers at the University of Oregon

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Sharpie T-Shirt Design 101

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Those who know me know I’m not afraid to wear ugly t-shirts. In particular I’m thinking of the gold-sparkles-on-blue Mr. Sparkle tee I made for a friend’s party. But I’m not apt to put the effort into making these shirts unless I have a compelling reason to wear them. So, when I heard there was an anime convention coming to town I decided that since everyone else was probably going to be in ridiculous cosplay, I might as well make an effort to wear something unique and interesting. Also cheap. That was important.
What I ended up with was a custom one-of-a-kind Sharpie-based t-shirt. Let me take you through the process:

It began with a t-shirt. 15$ at Old Navy for a plain orange tee:

After that I had to pick a design. I wanted something original and a joke only select people would understand. I decided on this.

Next, I taped a piece of paper to the shirt where I wanted the image to go:

I needed to put some cardboard inside the t-shirt to get a nice flat canvas to work on. I couldn’t find any cardboard so I used an old Abba record [note: the marker will go through the shirt! Don’t use anything you don’t mind damaging.]

I lined up the paper in the centre of the cardboard-backed canvas and then removed the paper. With the tee held tight against the cardboard I set up my tracing system. I used a projector to shine the image onto the tee:

After that the tracing began. What I learned is that no matter what the shirt never seems to be tight enough to form a proper canvas. You have to be careful not to pull the shirt with the sharpie and mess up your design. The Sharpie is obviously permanent so don’t mess it up. Go slow. It can be done as evidenced by this:

It’s not perfect. The edges are not very crisp, but it’s good enough as far as I’m concerned. I let the sharpie ink dry for 15 minutes and then removed the cardboard. Looks good so far!

Finally I put the tee in the dryer for 15 minutes to let it dry some more. After that I considered it done. I haven’t washed it yet, and it still smells like sharpie but not much. I’m not sure if it’ll fade or bleed after washing, so I’ll definitely wash it on its own the first time, but I have a feeling it’ll be pretty permanent.

In conclusion: the sharpie t-shirt experiment… GREAT SUCCESS!!

illustration – landscapes

This was a recent fun project commissioned by a young woman for her fiance (who I happen to know!) as a Valentine’s day gift.  Don’t worry, I’m not ruining the surprise, she couldn’t wait until V-day to give it to him

I couldn’t get very good pics of the colors with my camera. The original is 8″x10″ acrylic on a deep edge canvas. Here’s a close up:

My client, Liz, wanted something that would be meaningful for the both of them.  She mentioned a recent trip they had taken to the Grand Canyon, and sent me some pics.  She also told me which paintings of mine she liked, this really helped me in determining what direction to take for this painting.

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