Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York

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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.

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