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December 7, 1941: The Day That Shaped Shinkichi’s Life
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the weather at the naval and air bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawai‘i, was partly cloudy. The U.S. Weather...


Letters from the Front: Messages to His Family
When we began dismantling Shinkichi Tajiri’s home and studios, we started by sorting through everything room by room. The first step was...


Side by Side: Gerdur Helgadottir and Shinkichi Tajiri in the 1950s
While reviewing Shinkichi Tajiri’s archive, several early 1950s photographs surfaced of him working on plaster and iron sculptures in...


Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Remembering 80 Years Later
Eighty years have passed since the skies over Hiroshima and Nagasaki turned to fire. In just moments, lives were erased, families were...


The Friendship and History Behind Tajiri’s Early War Paintings
In 2023, I discovered some very early oil paintings on cardboard. A few had pencil dates on the back revealing they were created in 1942,...
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