Ohanashi – The Story of Our Elders
A new 10 part series of Nikkei life stories. On DVD 30 to 47 minutes each. Interviewed by film maker Susanne Tabata. Home use DVDs are available at the Museum shop. $20 each or $150 for set of 10. Public viewing copies are available from Moving Images.
Wild Birds
Carvings by Tad Yesaki
Photographs by Roy Hamaguchi
Text by Donna Yoshitake Wuest
Wild Birds is a celebration of the art, talent, and nintai, perseverance, of two Japanese Canadians—carver Tad Yesaki and photographer Roy Hamaguchi—who have pursued their art for more than a half-century…not as a career, but as a passion. Before they retired, Tad was a fisherman based in Steveston and Roy was an engineer in the aerospace and electronic technology industries in Canada and the United States.
Wild Birds introduces the artists in separate biographies and features page after page of full-colour images of Tad’s carvings and Roy’s photographs. Tad’s carvings include some of the decoys he carved forty years ago and follow the evolution of his talent to the Gadwall carving that won first place in the 2008 Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Competition. Roy’s amazing photographs range from a flock of Snow Geese taking off into the pink sky, to a triptych showing a White-tailed Eagle’s bungled attempt to steal a trout from a Red-crowned Crane, and a Red-necked Grebe showing off her baby. For each image, Roy or Tad has an anecdote to share.
ISBN 978-0-9730913-3-5| 11 x 8.5, soft cover | 92 pages, 89 colour photographs throughout | October 2008 | $20
Asahi Souvenir Program
Souvenir program for the exhibition Levelling the Playing Field: Legacy of Vancouver’s Asahi Baseball Team, which was curated by Grace Eiko Thomson for the Japanese Canadian National Museum. $2.00
Shashin: Japanese Canadian Studio Photography to 1942
Based on the Japanese Canadian National Museum’s touring exhibition, the book brings together rare photographs and new insight into the work of Japanese Canadian studio photographers who depicted the vibrant pre-war communities in Cumberland, Vancouver and New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada. The exhibition was curated by Grace Eiko Thomson, who also coordinated this catalogue publication that includes essays by Jan Gates, Imogene Lim, Patricia Roy, Phyllis Senese, Grace Eiko Thomson and Jim Wolf.
$19.95 paperback. 92 b&w images throughout the book. 96 pages. Publication date June 2005
Reshaping Memory, Owning History: Through the Lens of Japanese Canadian Redress
The Canadian government’s acknowledgement of injustice and compensation on September 22, 1988 redressed this terrible wrong in Canada’s past. Layers of voices, drawn from documents of internment, newspapers, books, poetry, diaries, letters, and oral histories, together with poignant photographic images and memory-laden artifacts, speak to losses and absences, and of issues of community, identity, representation, and human rights. Text by Roy Miki, Yuko Shibata and Michiko Ayukawa. 2002 $14.00
Nikkei Images
The quarterly publication of the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre. This publication focuses mainly on the history of ethnic Japanese (or Nikkei) in Canada. Subscription included with your NNM&HC membership, or $1 each.
