Title:
Untitled
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
c. 1975
Identifier:
92.97.116
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
New York, N.Y.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, top left (in Japanese): Kashu Nihongo Gakko [Translation:
California Japanese Language School]
Description:
Unstretched and unframed. Formerly stapled onto 92.97.117. 1 painting : image 31 x 39.25 in., unstretched canvas 33.5 x 41.25
in. Children learning katakana, Japanese phonetic alphabet, at a California Japanese language school. A mustached man in a
blue suit stands at right before three children seated at desks pointing to a chalkboard with katakana. He faces left in profile
to the viewer with his left hand in pocket and other raised to the black chalkboard at left. Behind him, a chair and desk
with a Japanese language book, "Kashu konin, Kashu Nihongo Gakko hon," stands against a grey wall under a sign with Japanese
writing, "Kashu Nihongo Gakko" (California Japanese Language School). A single bulb blue lamp hangs overhead. Two boys in
overalls and one girl in an orange dress sit in the front row with their backs to the viewer, raising their hands. A boy sits
in the second row in the lower left corner writing in his book. Part of a window is visible on the left.
Subject:
Japanese Americans
Japanese language schools
California
Children
Teachers
Desks
Hiragana
Books
Teaching
