Shirley Ann Higuchi: Stopping the cruel practice of profiting from human suffering
Art created by Japanese Americans while they were unjustly imprisoned should not be up for sale.
(Brian Melley | AP file photo)
This Oct. 22, 2019, photo photo shows a gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., that commemorates the death of Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar. A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California s second-highest peak was identified Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, as Matsumura, a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II.
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eBay removes a listing to sell art created at California s Manzazar Japanese American concentration camp We don t feel that Japanese American history particularly around the trauma of racist policies that excluded, forcibly removed, and incarcerated 120,000 residents from the West Coast should be sold or used for profit.
Posted: Apr 11, 2021 9:32 AM
Updated: Apr 11, 2021 10:53 AM
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Each of the 20 black and white sketches artfully depicts a natural landscape.
Pine trees and mountains set against a bright orb in the sky. Cartoonish leaves splayed out like tentacles. Unearthly limestone columns towering before an ominous cloud.
Their origins, though, are darker: They are believed to have been created by an artist in Manzanar, the concentration camp in California s Owens Valley where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated as a result of the United States government s racism and hysteria during World War II.
Auction of Japanese internment art pulled after protest
The auction was halted Tuesday by eBay hours before it was to conclude after company executives met with Japanese American groups who called the sale hurtful.
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo Lori Matsumura visits the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File) Author: Associated Press Updated: 8:23 PM CDT April 6, 2021
The auction of a series of sketches purportedly drawn by an artist at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar was canceled Tuesday after groups protested it was offensive and immoral to profit off the misery of incarcerated people.
eBay auction of Japanese internment art pulled after protest
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo Lori Matsumura visits the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif. The auction of a series of sketches purportedly drawn by an artist at the Japanese internment camp has been canceled Tuesday, April 6, 2021, after groups protested it was offensive and immoral to profit off the misery of incarcerated people. Matsumura, the granddaughter of Giichi who recently reburied her grandfather s remains after a hiker unearthed his skeleton in 2019, thought the sketches could be by her late father, Masaru, or another family member. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File)