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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) 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 Kiku (left) 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. Philadelphia Hostel bridge night Resettlers at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Resettlers at the front of Independence Hall Resettlers at Independence Hall Resettlers at Philadelphia Museum of Art courtyard Resettlers listen to spirituals Shipping at Seabrook Farms Seabrook Farms field photo Five young evacuees are 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 at Hotel Whittier in Philadelphia War Relocation Authority office jobs and housing Mary Watanabe at a Japanese folk fair, 1989. Two women standing on stone steps above the pond at Shofuso Children sitting on the front veranda of the house at Shofuso






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: March through October, Tuesday through Sunday, 11 AM to 5 PM; November through December, 10 AM to 4 PM.

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