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A Family Affair: Uwajimaya Inc.

Uwajimaya is profiled as one of five family businesses that have flourished.

Race Prejudice

Letter to the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer decries the opposition to the appointment of Clarence Arai to the Seattle Public Library board.

Chinese Folk Designs

Cut paper designs used for embroidery. Also includes a Dictionary of Chinese art symbols.

Honored and Honorable Paul Horiuchi, the

Paul Horiuchi Honored by exhibit in Japan on Japanese Artist in America

The Priest and His Disciples: A Play

Shukke to Sono Deshi published in 1918 is the story religion and love as told through the lives of Shinran Shonin and his disciples. Shinran (1173-1262) was the founder of the Shin sect of Buddhism

Robes of Elegance: Japanese Kimonos of the 16th-20th Centuries

When the Kyoto art dealer Nomura Shojiro (1879-1943) began collecting kosode, the luxurious Japanese robes that served as precursors to today's kimonos, near the end of the nineteenth century, it is doubtful he realized the tremendous impact his…