Poet Michael Prior embarks on an exploration of intergenerational memory
Miki Sato uses paper and textiles to create whimsical worlds
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Finding connection through times of isolation
Brenda Kamino shares grandmother's incredible 100-year life at Toronto Fringe Festival
Randy Kusano inducted into the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame
Mindfulness in the city: Does your food spark joy?
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17 Jun 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Falling out of love with food when cooking for one. Photo credits: Caroline Ishii. Instead of the love affair, I thought I had with food, it's been more of a tumultuous love-hate relationship. I've come to this realization while making food for myself at home. Alone in my kitchen, I am not inspired...
Read more → 09 Jun 2021
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Title: "Prince Chichibu's visit to Canada 2." Collection: Shigetaka (Steve) Sasaki Family fonds. Accession Number: 2011.64.7.1.2. Year: circa 1937. By Jeffery Chong Although the film is titled Prince Chichibu's visit to Canada 2 by its original creator, Prince Chichibu does not appear in this...
Read more → 26 May 2021
Posted by Lisa Uyeda 
Title: Topping knife. Collection: Yano Family Collection. Repository: Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: 2013.57.3.4. Year: 1942. The hook was used to lift the heavy beet from the ground, then the beet was “topped,” meaning the leaves were cut from the beet. Beets were harvested in the fall....
Read more → 12 May 2021
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Title: "8mm Film Projector." Charles Campbell Collection. Repository: Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: 2021.2.1.1.1. Circa 1930s. By Jeffery Chong BURNABY — This item is a Keystone 8mm film projector, model R-8, with serial number 491996, dating circa the 1930s. The projector comes...
Read more → 15 Apr 2021
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Page 10 of the chronicle compiled by the Tanakas, covering reported events on Feb. 18 and 19, 1942. Image information: "Chronicle by Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, Dec. 7, 1941, through Oct. 16, 1944." Collection: Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka Collection. Accession Number: 2002.2.1.1.1.10. Year: 1944. By...
Read more → 16 Mar 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Learning to live with our demons and what we cannot control. Photo credit: Georges Seguin/Wikimedia Commons. I woke up one morning and called my best friend, Barb, in a panic. I asked her if something should happen to me, could she release my writings? I explained that I have so much I want to share...
Read more → 09 Mar 2021
Posted by Lisa Uyeda 
Title: "Tea Set." Collection: Anonymous. Repository: Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: TD 1409. Year: 1942. These are emotional stories of items that will always be remembered by those who had no choice but to leave them behind and the betrayal of the promise that these belongings...
Read more → 19 Feb 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer," wrote French philosopher and author Albert Camus. I find it in cross-country skiing, skating, and walking in nature. I also find it curling up with a good book, drinking my morning café au lait, inspiring music, spending...
Read more → 18 Feb 2021
Posted by Lindsey Jacobson 
Title: "Nimi Shoten Mosaic." Collection: Found in the Nimi Family Collection. Accession Number: 1997.197.3.1.a-e. Year: 1918 The store was a prewar drugstore, opened in 1918 and ran by several generations of the Nimi family. During the forced removal and dispossession of Japanese Canadians along...
Read more → 22 Jan 2021
Posted by Jeffery Chong 
Mochi making at the Nishimuras. These home movie stills are from the Maki and Frank Yosaburo Nishimura collection held at the Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: NNM 2018.38.2.1.10 Following this shot, Kim, Mink, and Maki Nishimura shape the mochi. Mochitsuki is traditionally a family...
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