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Documenting the Internment Experience: Miné Okubo and Citizen 13660
Women Artists
Lauren Kraut14 January 2025 min Read
Photograph of Miné Okubo taken in 6 March 1945 by Toge Fujihira, New York, NY, USA.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Detail.
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly placed in concentration camps. Artist Miné Okubo was in two of those.
From the time war was declared in 1939 until 1944, she drew what she saw and what she experienced.
Miné Okubo sketched incessantly while incarcerated, documenting the everyday lives of the Japanese Americans at camp.
In 1946, the sketches were published as a book, Citizen 13660.
Summary
- Miné Okubo was an American artist born in California in 1912 to Japanese parents. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Okubo, like other Japanese Americans, was forced to leave her home and go through different processing centers.
- Okubo started recording life in the relocation camps.
Her drawings were to form a book called Citizen 13660–the number of the family unit she was assigned to.
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