The gate of memory : poems by descendants of Nikkei wartime incarceration / edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda ; with a foreword by Mitsuye Yamada.
2025
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Title
The gate of memory : poems by descendants of Nikkei wartime incarceration / edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda ; with a foreword by Mitsuye Yamada.
ISBN
9798888903711 paperback
9798888904305 hardcover
9798888904305 hardcover
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
xvi, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1512339129
Summary
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen M. Inouye explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of political engagement. Drawing on interviews and untapped archival materials--regarding politicians Norman Mineta and Warren Furutani, sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani, and Canadian activists Art Miki and Mary Kitagawa, among others--Inouye considers the experiences of former wartime prisoners and their on-going involvement in large-scale educational and legislative efforts. While many consider wartime imprisonment an isolated historical moment, Inouye shows how imprisonment and the suspension of rights have continued to impact political discourse and public policies in both the United States and Canada long after their supposed political and legal reversal. In particular, she attends to how activist groups can use the persistence of memory to engage empathetically with people across often profound cultural and political divides. This book addresses the mechanisms by which injustice can transform both its victims and its perpetrators, detailing the dangers of suspending rights during times of crisis as well as the opportunities for more empathetic agency.
Formatted Contents Note
I. I bow at the gates. Thirteen ways of looking at a teacher resource/ Brynn Saito
Crossing / Brian Komei Dempster
Infinite definitions of birth right / Lauren Emilko Ito
Pilgrimage to the shrine / Garrett Hongo
Because you showed me a piece of barbed wire
Reparations: my mother and Heart Mountain / Sharon Hashimoto
Tamatebako / Katherine Terumi Laubscher
Summer stars / Terry Watada
Tashme
Lines written while visiting the valley where the camp was / Michael Prior
The return / Garrett Kurai
Gila River / Brandon Shimoda
Former site of an internment camp / Kenneth Tanemura
tankas for a buried town / Leanne Toshiko Simpson
Stones
Topaz
Mountains / Aisuke Kondo, with English translations by Kondo and Yukiko Nagakura
At Manzanar the mountains / Doug Yamamoto
Shadow Mountain / Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
II. This is not the whole story. Legacies of camp / W. Todd Kaneko
["the ocean and i"] / shō yamagushiku
A history of Isako / Mia Ayumi Malhrota
Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry (an erasure) / Tamiko Nimura
"Only what you can carry" / Kurt Yokoyama Ikeda
A hundred and fifty pounds / Michael Prior
1942: in response to Executive Order 9066, my father, sixteen, takes / Christine Kitano
Dad called it Camp / Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Seized / Brian Komei Dempster
Evacuation / Carolyn Nakagawa
yes, 1942 / Anne Yukie Watanabe
Gaman / Christine Kitano
At Heart Mountain, 1942 / Traise Yamamoto
How did the physical space of the camps contribute to your experiences? / Syd Westley
Gila / Kenneth Tanemura
Letters from Poston Relocation Camp (1942-45) / David Mura
Kubota to Miguel Hernández in heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942
Kubota to Nâzim Hikmet in Peredelkino, Moscow, from Leupp, Arizona / Garrett Hongo
A few seeds / Jodi Hottel
Stolen / Ryan Hitoshi Nakano
evening song
an ocean
doorway of blossoms / Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
The frozen native
[a vastness] / shō yamagushiku
Moon above the ruins / Terry Watada
Toy library / Cathlin Goulding
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the US Constitution / Sharon Hashimoto
Old photo, 1942
Dawn in the internment camp at Heart Mountain / George Uba
Tashme
The camps: burning the dead / Kevin Irie
36 views of Manzanar / Amy Uyetmatsu
Portrait of Isako in wartime / Mia Ayumi Malhotra
1945: my father leaves Topaz Internment Camp, Utah / Christine Kitano
Internment camp psychology / David Mura
After Poston, East Los Angeles, 1946 / Heather Nagami
III. Each leaf / remembers. ? / Brittany Arita
ghost story / W. Todd Kaneko
Self portrait; family portrait / Starr Sumie Miyata
Self-portrait as contained swarm / Emily Mitamura
Lucky / Laura K. Fukumoto
She was incarcerated/I exist / Susan Kiyo Ito
Enough / Dana Swensen
Five of cups / Hikari Leilani Miya
Nakada Issei / translated into English / means lost in the fields / Noriko Nakada
Sand Island
Honouliuli birds / Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
Tori / Patrick Shiroishi
Tree (why my father didn't teach me Japanese) / Micah Tasaka
The gift / Heather Nagami
Invocation
Spell cast by imagined queer ancestor at Amache / Ali Meyers-Ohki
Elegy attempts / Syd Westley
Behind barbed wire / Richard Hamasaki
For Shizu / Mona Oikawa
Minidoka is the first camp your grandmother is incarcerated in, Crystal City is the second / Troy Osaki
american sentences / W. Todd Kaneko
Obasan's list
Grandfather explains / Keiko Lane
Poston / Rebecca A. Green
Daughter - "you were blooming" / Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno
A conversation with my mother, Renko, about the journey to and from Topaz Prison Camp in a dream / Brian Komei Dempster
An argument: on 1942 / David Mura
From Sam / Steve Fujimura
Wind structures, 1-5 / Amanda Mei Kim
IV. I can hold my breath for years. fire, near fire / traci kato-kiriyama
On rage / Brittany Arita
For the no-nos / Alison Lubar
GAMBARE! / Miya Iwataki
No redress / traci kato-kiriyama
Recalling reparations / Noriko Nakada
Gender of the day: Silicon Valley / Syd Westley
It's a funny feeling / Angela Marian May
notes on the phrase shikata ga nai, written after a Colorado state representative says in 2017 that the internment camps were justified because "in the heat of battle there isn't time to distinguish who is a citizen and who is not", or: it cannot be helped / James Fujinami Moore
My grandparents plant a pear tree in the backyard of their home in northeast Portland / Troy Osaki
The border / Michael Prior
Visitation / Sesshu Foster
Theses on the philosophy of history / Brynn Saito
Plaything / Greer Nakadegawa-Lee
Fred Korematsu Day, Jan 30 / Steve Fujimura
Tsuru for solidarity / Michael Ishii
Haibun for February 19
A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard? / Erica H. Isomura
Song for Kanjitsu / Miya Folick
V. Be strong now. To my ancestors, forgive me / Starr Sumie Miyata
Omiyage: rituals
Ars poetica / Casey Hidekawa Lane/Levinski
Topaz / Brian Komei Dempster
Earth's aging / Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno
To my many mothers, issei and nisei / Mia Ayumi Malhrota
Tegami / Carolyn Nakagawa
Arrival as we / Laren Emiko Ito.
Crossing / Brian Komei Dempster
Infinite definitions of birth right / Lauren Emilko Ito
Pilgrimage to the shrine / Garrett Hongo
Because you showed me a piece of barbed wire
Reparations: my mother and Heart Mountain / Sharon Hashimoto
Tamatebako / Katherine Terumi Laubscher
Summer stars / Terry Watada
Tashme
Lines written while visiting the valley where the camp was / Michael Prior
The return / Garrett Kurai
Gila River / Brandon Shimoda
Former site of an internment camp / Kenneth Tanemura
tankas for a buried town / Leanne Toshiko Simpson
Stones
Topaz
Mountains / Aisuke Kondo, with English translations by Kondo and Yukiko Nagakura
At Manzanar the mountains / Doug Yamamoto
Shadow Mountain / Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
II. This is not the whole story. Legacies of camp / W. Todd Kaneko
["the ocean and i"] / shō yamagushiku
A history of Isako / Mia Ayumi Malhrota
Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry (an erasure) / Tamiko Nimura
"Only what you can carry" / Kurt Yokoyama Ikeda
A hundred and fifty pounds / Michael Prior
1942: in response to Executive Order 9066, my father, sixteen, takes / Christine Kitano
Dad called it Camp / Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Seized / Brian Komei Dempster
Evacuation / Carolyn Nakagawa
yes, 1942 / Anne Yukie Watanabe
Gaman / Christine Kitano
At Heart Mountain, 1942 / Traise Yamamoto
How did the physical space of the camps contribute to your experiences? / Syd Westley
Gila / Kenneth Tanemura
Letters from Poston Relocation Camp (1942-45) / David Mura
Kubota to Miguel Hernández in heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942
Kubota to Nâzim Hikmet in Peredelkino, Moscow, from Leupp, Arizona / Garrett Hongo
A few seeds / Jodi Hottel
Stolen / Ryan Hitoshi Nakano
evening song
an ocean
doorway of blossoms / Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
The frozen native
[a vastness] / shō yamagushiku
Moon above the ruins / Terry Watada
Toy library / Cathlin Goulding
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the US Constitution / Sharon Hashimoto
Old photo, 1942
Dawn in the internment camp at Heart Mountain / George Uba
Tashme
The camps: burning the dead / Kevin Irie
36 views of Manzanar / Amy Uyetmatsu
Portrait of Isako in wartime / Mia Ayumi Malhotra
1945: my father leaves Topaz Internment Camp, Utah / Christine Kitano
Internment camp psychology / David Mura
After Poston, East Los Angeles, 1946 / Heather Nagami
III. Each leaf / remembers. ? / Brittany Arita
ghost story / W. Todd Kaneko
Self portrait; family portrait / Starr Sumie Miyata
Self-portrait as contained swarm / Emily Mitamura
Lucky / Laura K. Fukumoto
She was incarcerated/I exist / Susan Kiyo Ito
Enough / Dana Swensen
Five of cups / Hikari Leilani Miya
Nakada Issei / translated into English / means lost in the fields / Noriko Nakada
Sand Island
Honouliuli birds / Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
Tori / Patrick Shiroishi
Tree (why my father didn't teach me Japanese) / Micah Tasaka
The gift / Heather Nagami
Invocation
Spell cast by imagined queer ancestor at Amache / Ali Meyers-Ohki
Elegy attempts / Syd Westley
Behind barbed wire / Richard Hamasaki
For Shizu / Mona Oikawa
Minidoka is the first camp your grandmother is incarcerated in, Crystal City is the second / Troy Osaki
american sentences / W. Todd Kaneko
Obasan's list
Grandfather explains / Keiko Lane
Poston / Rebecca A. Green
Daughter - "you were blooming" / Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno
A conversation with my mother, Renko, about the journey to and from Topaz Prison Camp in a dream / Brian Komei Dempster
An argument: on 1942 / David Mura
From Sam / Steve Fujimura
Wind structures, 1-5 / Amanda Mei Kim
IV. I can hold my breath for years. fire, near fire / traci kato-kiriyama
On rage / Brittany Arita
For the no-nos / Alison Lubar
GAMBARE! / Miya Iwataki
No redress / traci kato-kiriyama
Recalling reparations / Noriko Nakada
Gender of the day: Silicon Valley / Syd Westley
It's a funny feeling / Angela Marian May
notes on the phrase shikata ga nai, written after a Colorado state representative says in 2017 that the internment camps were justified because "in the heat of battle there isn't time to distinguish who is a citizen and who is not", or: it cannot be helped / James Fujinami Moore
My grandparents plant a pear tree in the backyard of their home in northeast Portland / Troy Osaki
The border / Michael Prior
Visitation / Sesshu Foster
Theses on the philosophy of history / Brynn Saito
Plaything / Greer Nakadegawa-Lee
Fred Korematsu Day, Jan 30 / Steve Fujimura
Tsuru for solidarity / Michael Ishii
Haibun for February 19
A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard? / Erica H. Isomura
Song for Kanjitsu / Miya Folick
V. Be strong now. To my ancestors, forgive me / Starr Sumie Miyata
Omiyage: rituals
Ars poetica / Casey Hidekawa Lane/Levinski
Topaz / Brian Komei Dempster
Earth's aging / Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno
To my many mothers, issei and nisei / Mia Ayumi Malhrota
Tegami / Carolyn Nakagawa
Arrival as we / Laren Emiko Ito.
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