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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: grave on the wall
  name:
    name part: Shimoda, Brandon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Born on an island off the cost of Hiroshima around 1908, Midori Shimoda died in North Carolina in 1996, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for two decades. A photographer, he was incarcerated in a Department of Justice prison during World War II under suspicion of being a spy for Japan. From his birth to contract laborer/picture-bride parents to his immigration and prewar life in Seattle's Nihonmachi, to wartime incarceration and postwar resettlement in New York City, his is a story of a man and a family vying for the American dream earnestly, but not without some bitterness. Poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical-collage portrait of a grandfather he barely knew, and a moving meditation on memory and forgetting. The book begins with Midori's first memory (washing the feet of his own grandfather's corpse) and ends with the author's last memory of him. In between are vignettes of camellia blossoms, picture brides, suicidal monks, ancestral fires, great-grandmothers, bathhouses, atomic bomb survivors, paintings, photographs, burial mounds, golden pavilions and dementia. In a series of pilgrimages he makes, from his own home in the Arizona desert to the family's ancestral village in Japan, to a Montana museum of World War II detention where he discovers a previously unknown photographic portrait of his grandfather, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and therefore himself.
  table of contents: The period of summoning relatives -- Faces -- The night of the day my grandfather died -- Death Valley -- The house that no longer exists -- The camphor tree -- The woman in the well -- Great grandmothers -- People of the first year -- The first Japanese to be photographed -- The characters -- Daimonji -- Dreams -- Nagasaki -- The bathhouse -- Domanju -- Miyajima -- Shirakami -- August 6, 2011 -- Tohoku -- Margaret Ichino -- Monument Valley -- Department of Justice (letter from Dan B. Shields to Edward J. Ennis) -- Fort Missoula -- Dreams -- New York City -- African burial ground -- Thunder Hill -- The inland sea -- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
  note: Brandon Shimoda.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shimoda, Midori
      name part: 1911-1996
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shimoda, Brandon
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Japanese Americans
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Japanese American photographers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Japanese Americans
    topic: Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
  subject:
    topic: Grandfathers
  subject:
    topic: Grandparent and child
  classification: E184.J3 S47 2019
  classification: 973/.04956
  identifier: 9780872867901
  identifier: 0872867900
  identifier: 9780872867932
  identifier: 2019015708
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190409
    record change date: 20211225063343.0
    record identifier: in00004095638