Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York

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Sakari Suzuki (1899-1995)

Suzuki Sakari was born in Iwate Prefecture and studied at the San Fancisco Art Institute in the 1920s. He moved to New York City around 1930 and studied in the Art Students League.

He died in Chicago in 1995.

Eitaro Ishigaki (1893-1958)

Eitaro Ishigaki was invited to the U.S. in 1909 by his father who had moved there previously. He lived in Seattle and Bakersfield, then San Francisco, where he met Gertrude Boyle. They moved to New York togehter in 1915. Ishigaki worked repairing furniture and umbrella handles while attending the Art Students League.

After the war he was suspected of communist activities and was deported to Japan with his wife Ayako Ishigaki in 1951. Ishigaki died in Tokyo in 1958.

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)

Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles and moved with his family to Japan in 1906. He returned to the U.S. in 1918. He studied sculpture from 1919-1920, and became a member of the National Sculpture Society in 1925.

After graduated from Columbia University in 1927 with a degree in pharmacology, he received a Guggenheim scholarship to study in France.

During WWII, Noguchi entered the Japanese American Internment camp at Poston, Arizona under his own volition in 1942, and returned to New York six months after entering the camp.

In 1985, Noguchi opened The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (now known as The Noguchi Museum), in Long Island City, New York.

He passed away in New York in 1988.

Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond

Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond: 150 Years of Japanese Baseball Courtesy of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. There had been no greater agency in bringing our different races together than our nation’s game, baseball. Baseball is our real melting pot. – Frederick Lieb, American sportswriter and baseball historian (1923) About The Exhibit In  2022, Japan celebrated baseball’s sesquicentennial – the 150th birthday of a national pastime and obsession in the Land of the Rising Sun. What started as a school sport in Tokyo has forged a path for many Japanese players to make it to the Major Leagues, with names such as Ichiro, Matsui, Darvish, Tanaka, […]