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January 2019 / Zine #003 JANUARY 2019 / ZINE #003 A YEAR IN LITTLE TOKYO WHAT IS TAKACHIZU? A YEAR IN The Japanese words Takara (Treasure) and Chizu (Map) join to form Takachizu (Treasure map). Takachizu was a LITTLE TOKYO temporary community “show & tell” gathering space designed to identify and reflect on that which is most valuable, celebrated, and most in need of protection in Little Tokyo. Day of Remembrance During 2016, we conducted dozens of WINTER SPRING workshops with residents, workers, shoppers, and visitors to Little Tokyo. Participants brought in “treasures” that represented Little Tokyo’s values to them. These treasures were shared Shinnenkai in a group setting, documented, and then added to a temporary exhibition Hinamatsuri and online archive. VC Film Festival The gathered treasures will help give guidance and focus to a multi- Oshogatsu, New Years Kodomo No Hi/ Children's Day year planning initiative of Little Tokyo Service Center and Sustainable Little Tokyo. Matsuri at Centenary The full archive of collected treasures are shared online at Obon Festivals takachizu.org and selections will Bonnenkai be presented in themed zines like Delicious Little Tokyo this one. This zine showcases treasures that illustrate the festivals, traditions, Takachizu was developed and Nisei Week and events that give an annual rhythm produced by artist Rosten Woo FandangObon to Little Tokyo. with Maya Santos and design by Tiffanie Tran and Tom Kracauer. Haunted Little Tokyo Takachizu is a project of Sustainable Little Tokyo initiated by +LAB, LTSC’s creative community development strategy utilizing collaboration Maryknoll Shotokan and experimentation to advance Little Tokyo’s power over its future. FALL Teriyaki Bingo Fundraiser SUMMER 2 3 Treasure #000 OSHOGATSU This treasure added by Toshio Handa TRE I became a member of the Japanese Chamber terrorism, and it caused a real slow down I'm a member of a calligraphy school. of Commerce in early 2000 and started to of business, including Little Tokyo. It This year I went on the stage with my work for the Oshogatsu new year project became like a ghost town. So we started fellows to do a demonstration. I am from since 2006. In the past I would go on this event to revitalize Little Tokyo. Japan, so it stimulates my culture, my vacation, but since 2006 I no longer sense of heritage. In about 2010, I took ASU travel. From November to December I have When I started working with this project, my two grandchildren to volunteer. We lots of community meetings to prepare. the Doubletree was the New Otani, a were in charge of a booth to sell drinks. We raise the flag, but it’s joined by famous Japanese hotel with Japanese I was very happy to have them involved. all participants. The purpose is to management staff. They were very I felt somehow this way heritage is vitalize Little Tokyo. First to provide cooperative with us and provided space transmitted from one generation to the opportunities and services to develop for us. We used to make mochi and the next. That's how I felt. business in our community, and also to hotel provided the entire kitchen for preserve our cultural heritage. us. Later on they sold it. A very large I think we will have a large audience RES hotel like Doubletree doesn’t care that as we continue to become more well- In Japan, January 1st is the most sacred much about what we do. So the situation known. However people who organize and event. They celebrate January 1st, 2nd, and is quite different; these days we set up promote will hopefully get more Japanese 3rd as three happy days with January 1st outside. Things keep changing and we have and Japanese Americans involved. Every The New Year is marked by as the most important. Our event focuses to cope. Lots of changes but gradually year we have an influx of Japanese from Oshogatsu, a community-wide on January 1st. The event involves lots of we saw an increase in visitors. In the Japan but they are not quite interested celebration organized by the cultural activities, dances, drums, paper old days we saw Japanese and Japanese in getting involved with the Japanese Japanese American Chamber art, Japanese calligraphy. Americans. But nowadays the majority of culture scene. When they leave Japan visitors are just... American people. they have ambition to know about foreign of Commerce. In 1990 there was a worldwide economic People seem to know that on January 1st, culture, that’s why they left Japan but crash and in 2001 a lot of fear of if I go there, something's going on. we can involve more Japanese Americans. 4 5 Treasure #126 Treasure #046 SHINNENKAI (LTBA) EVACUATION ORDER Photo by Mickie Okamoto This treasure added by Steve Nagano Newly installed members of the Little Tokyo Business Association Evacuation Order is important to me (LTBA) show their state certificates of appreciation. Held nationally throughout and almost all Japanese in America. February, the Annual Day of It not only destroyed our communities, Front row, left: Joanne Kumamoto, Tomoko Omura, Yuriko Shikai, but also in many ways today, binds Remembrance commemorates Yoko Kawaguchi, Yoshiko Ueda, Ellen Endo, Assemblyman Miguel us together. Our people's common Roosevelt's Executive Order Santiago, Mike Okamoto, Tamako Henken, Haru Takehana. - experience, as devastating as it was, 9066. It forced almost 120,000 is a common thread through our history Back row, left: Tetsu Shiota, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Doug Aihara, Americans of Japanese ances and Little Tokyo's history. Chris Komai, Thornton Dickerson, Paul Abe, Edwin Takahashi, try from their homes and into and Hironori Yonezawa. federal detention camps. 6 7 Treasure #125 HIGASHI HONGANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE would be respectful and finally, after, didn’t drive. So when I came here and I she would say ‘I haven’t much English. began I only came here as a chauffeur. I’m a Buddhist. I’m still studying. When I’m finished, then I will learn your But when I began to listen to the Buddha religion!’ The studying of course, never teachings here, I felt very comfortable. ends. I appreciate Buddhism as it is And it appealed to me. I felt comfortable presented here. and I recognized that what I thought was quaint in my father was actually a It wasn’t that I rejected Christianity reflection of his Buddhist background. per se, except that I always felt I was He would say ‘Let’s not say that flower a hypocrite. That I was not Christ-like. died. Let’s just say that flower has But the real reason I came here, and I’ve completed its bloom, life keeps going’ told this to Rimban, was when my husband I’d say ‘isn’t daddy cute.’ Or he’d say died after an illness. I wanted to spend that his old car had served him well, I’d time with my mother. Because my father think ‘It’s a car it’s a machine.’ But he had passed on. And one way I could be always expressed... Gratitude. I began with her and be of any help to her was to recognize him and the manner in which to drive her to the temple because she they lived their lives. Little Tokyo's many Temples and Churches create the continuity Treasure #127 of community life. Group treasure OSAISEN ENVELOPE Well I am an interloper here because I don’t know about the rest of you but I I did not have the history that all of have found that in the Buddhist tradition My memory is of Hanamatsuri at Nishi. you do. Because in fact I did not become there is an openness and a lack of fear After our service, we had a donor that affiliated with Higashi until after my regarding spiritual or religious life. would give us a little coupon — a little father died and then my husband died. My parents never said that Buddhists were 25 cent coupon but this went a long In fact, I was sent to a Presbyterian better than anyone or that you had to way back in the sixties. So for all of Church by my father who was a very devout be careful about this religion or that us kids who grew up in the sixties, we Buddhist! At some point as an adult, religion. They always admired people who all remember getting those tickets and Caucasian friends asked me why did you were passionate about their spiritual running out of the main Hondo after the go to a Christian church? I said I don’t lives. service and getting our goodies. The sad know... my father told me to! So I asked thing is that our temple has moved to my mother. My father had died by that For instance, when people would come to First and Vignes and I feel like we lost time. And her answer was that my father the door. To proselytize, my younger our connectivity to LT when we moved to very much admired the Japanese-American sister would say ‘just close the door!’ our present location. Before, we used to minister of the Christian church and felt And my mother would say ‘no these people walk right outside our door and we’d be in that anything he taught me would benefit are earnestly trying to share their all of the businesses and when we moved we me as a human being. For which I was very information and it takes a lot of guts to became more of a commuter temple which is grateful. do that — to go from door to door.’ So she kind of sad — though our temple was able Group treasure to grow.
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