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Ireichō

Date
February 11, 2023
Time
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost
$7 – $16
Organizer’s Site
janm.org
Council District
City Council District 14
Event Series Dates
through September 24
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration and to expand the concept of what monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as a monument  (Ireichō), a website as a monument (Ireizō), and light sculptures as monuments (Ireihi).

 

The Ireichō contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in the US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireichō are special ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawai‘i, Arkansas to California, and from almost every other region of the United States.

The Ireizō lists those names online at ireizo.com. Visitors can search for the person’s name by name, birth year, or camp.

Location

Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA United States
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Organizer

Japanese American National Museum
Phone
213-625-0414

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