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Okaeri (Welcome Home)
The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso



Okaeri (Welcome Home): The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso is a site-based multimedia exhibit telling the story of the Nisei (second-generation), American-born persons of Japanese descent, and their unique connection and contributions to Shofuso. Focusing on the early 1980s to late 1990s, this exhibit explores the Nisei leaders who organized the Friends of the Japanese House and Garden, a volunteer-led non-profit organization that oversaw the restoration and maintenance of Shofuso until its merger with the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in 2016. 

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🚩 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of Shofuso and the 30th anniversary of the JASGP. Help us celebrate our combined 100th with a gift at japanphilly.org. 
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Okaeri (Welcome Home)
The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso



︎ Okaeri (Welcome Home): The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso is a site-based multimedia exhibit telling the story of the Nisei (second-generation), American-born persons of Japanese descent, and their unique connection and contributions to Shofuso. Focusing on the early 1980s to late 1990s, this exhibit explores the Nisei leaders who organized the Friends of the Japanese House and Garden, a volunteer-led non-profit organization that oversaw the restoration and maintenance of Shofuso until its merger with the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in 2016. ︎

Learn more ︎︎︎

Home
Index
Audio Tour
JACL Oral History Collection
Acknowledgements


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Mark


Reiko Nakawatase Gaspar with her classmates at Arizona's Poston War Relocation Center in the Japanese garden outside of school barracks, 1944 Church group at Rohwer War Relocation Center, Arkansas Gerald Kita at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming Grayce Kaneda (Uyehara) interviewed about resettlement by local radio Grayce Kaneda (Uyehara), fourth from the right, lining up to leave Stockton Assembly Center Hiroshi Uyehara and Fuku Yokoyama at Independence Hall Hiroshi Uyehara with his sister Yuriko Inouye family at Philadelphia Hostel Inouye family on the steps of Philadelphia Hostel Isamu (left) and Kiku (right) at Rohwer War Relocation Center, Arkansas, 1945 Japanese Americans in the Kogita garden at Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho. Credit: War Relocation Authority Minidoka Block 26 Garden and Pond. Credit: Joe Tanaka Moriuchi family dinner National Japanese American Student Relocation Council in Philadelphia, 1944 Bridge night at Philadelphia Hostel Resettlers at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Resettlers walking in front of Independence Hall Resettlers sitting below the Commodore John Barry Statue at Independence Hall Resettlers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art courtyard Resettlers listen to spirituals Shipping at Seabrook Farms The field at Seabrook Farms Five young evacuees having luncheon in the cafeteria at Seabrook Farms George Matsui (left), formerly of the Jerome and Gila River Relocation Centers, and his fellow workers unloading lima beans at Seabrook Farms Mrs. Ellen Ayako Nakamura (right), liaison officer between the management of Seabrook Farms Taniguchi family Tsunayoshi George Kaneda (left) at Hotel Whittier in Philadelphia War Relocation Authority office jobs and housing Marion Okajima (Nakashima), Mira Nakashima, and Marion's father at Minidoka War Relocation Center. Feb. 21, 1943. Credit: Nakashima Foundation for Peace Visitors at Shofuso, 1960s Visitors sitting on the veranda, 1990s Mary Watanabe at a Japanese folk fair, 1989






Shofuso Japanese House and Garden is located on the grounds of the Horticulture Center, in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, at the intersection of Lansdowne and Horticultural Drives.
Hours of operation: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 AM - 5 PM. Admission tickets can be purchased up to 3 weeks in advance at japanphilly.org/shofuso.
The Okaeri exhibit is closed as of August 17, 2024.

Okaeri (Welcome Home): The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso is presented by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia. 2023–2024.
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