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I am reluctant to ‘add’ my reworking through manipulation or construction to the idea of the landscape. The landscape at each site that I visited spoke for itself…., the obscurity of some of the places, the heat, the cold, the wind, the bugs, the fences, the openness, the graves, the monuments, .…
Patrick Nagatani. Manzanar, Japanese-American Concentration Camp, California, June 15, 1994 / MA-6-20-56 Chromogenic print (Kodak Ektacolor Supra II N), 10 1/4 X 12 3/4
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"Wandering the prison grounds in search of stones (as were the prisoners) and wandering the ruins of the prison grounds in search of history (as are the poets) both look like walking meditation. … Even if the poet looks like they are doing something else, the part of them that is bound to their ancestors’ arrest (which is unquantifiable) is immersed in walking meditation. In fact, the poets are only rarely in the physical ruins when they are writing. But the ruins, once entered, remain open. The ruins are everywhere. Sometimes they are flowering. Sometimes stone. (Sometimes the stones flower.) But they do not close."
Brandon Shimoda, “49 STONES FOR THE POETRY OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION”
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Interview with Jeff Burton, Japanese Gardens of Manzanar: Past, Present, and Future
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An excavated rock garden at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, CyArk Google Arts and Culture
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“Six months ago Manzanar was a barren, uninhabited desert. Today, green lawns, picturesque gardens with miniature mountains, stone lanterns, bridges over ponds where carp play, and other original, decorative ideas attest to the Japanese people’s traditional love of nature and ingenuity in reproducing beauty in miniature.”
“Best Garden Contest,” Manzanar Free Press, Fall 1942
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Colorized Photo by Toyo Miyake of the Block 34 Mess Hall Garden. Courtesy of Toyo Miyatake Studio.
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In previous years, volunteers unearthed this Japanese garden next to a mess hall at Manzanar. Japanese-Americans held at the camp during World War II built basements and gardens to make the remote, dusty barracks more livable. Courtesy of Susan Valot/KQED.
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The remains of a rock garden at Manzanar. Photo taken by Harry Gamble ca. 1983. Courtesy of the Frank Sato Collection.
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"The concept was really nice. Had good material to work with, nice rocks. Placing rocks, it is an art. There's... some people can do it nicely, some people just can't do it to make it look right. The rocks up there are nice. They're really nice rocks. And the whole, the scheme of the garden is nice. I think he could have done a better job of placing the rocks. But it's just a matter of that artistic ability, that natural ability to do in a nice arty way. That's just a lotta people just can't do that. It's like a lotta people can't paint nicely, but they like to do it."
Oral Interview with Henry Nishi, Courtesy of the Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
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The remains of a rock garden at Manzanar. Photo taken by Harry Gamble ca. 1983. Courtesy of the Frank Sato Collection.
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