Title:
In Camp Jerome
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
1943
Identifier:
92.97.9
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: Henry Sugimoto. Written on back: [Japanese characters] in camp Jerome/24"x19 1/2"
Description:
Image of a Nisei soldier standing in salute in front of a cross looking down at a woman dressed in dark blue in the foreground
who holds up a senninbari. Rows of small white crosses on green grass fill lower left and right background. In the upper right
background is the image of an American flag over a red star above a large "V". (Very similar to the painting entitled "Senninbari,"
also by Sugimoto (92.97.140).)
Historical Note:
Issei mothers prepared their sons for war by creating a senninbari, a protective talisman made of cloth. An image is sewn
onto the fabric, with a thousand stitches done by many women throughout the camp. Sugimoto's sympathy for both nisei soldiers
and their issei parents is evident in this work.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Japanese Americans
Soldiers
Mothers
Sons
Crosses
Death
Duty
Senninbari