Topaz Toddler Art

Two toddlers painting with easels outside a barrack.
Easel painting outdoors, preschool B, Rec. 13, Topaz. From the collection of Eleanor Gerard Sekerak. Courtesy of the Topaz Museum.
A senior Japanese American woman bends over a faded scrapbook, taking a photo of a child's drawing (drawn by her sister in Topaz concentration camp).
Kaz Oyamada Iwahashi photographs her sister’s drawing, 2018. Courtesy of Ruth Sasaki.
"Toddlers" Diane Hoshi Shimada and Norman Hayashi with their artwork.
“Toddlers” Diane Hoshi Shimada and Norman Hayashi, reunited with their Topaz artwork, 2018. Courtesy of the Topaz Toddler Project.

Art by Topaz Toddlers

Help us reunite Topaz Toddlers with their works of art! The collection of paintings, drawings, and artwork from Preschools A, B, C, D and Pre-Kindergarten contains pieces by toddlers born between 1939-1943. To date, we have found 28 of the “toddlers,” but are still looking for 43. 

If you are one of these toddler artists or know how to contact them, we would love to hear from you!

Contact Dana at shew@sonoma.edu or 818-601-9044

Eiko Akutagawa
Tommy Aoki
Esther Arakaki
Spencer Bunya
Jiro Fujimoto
Eiko Furukawa
Naoko Furuya
Kazuko Harada
Etsuko Harada
Kiyoshi Idota
Kimiko Inaba
Emi Kaneshi
Kay Kawakami
Betty Kawamoto

Takao Kawaoka
Koji Matsuno
Kazue Moriguchi
Kazue Morimoto
Julie Morita
Fujiye Nakamoto
Sumiye Nakamoto
Kazuo Nakao
Setsuko Nakao
Haruo Niitsuma
Tetsuya Nomura
Bobby Onoda
Jimmy Power
Hideo Saiki

Kayoko Sakaguchi
Suzann Sakamoto
Miyako Sugiyama
Joyce Takefuji
David Tashiro
Karen Tokunaga
Kiyoshi Tono
Gary Tsujimoto
Keiko Yamagami
Kikuko Yoda
Kenji Yokoro
Masao Yokoro
Joann Hisako Yokota
Keiko Yonekura


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