{"id":106112,"date":"2022-07-17T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=106112"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:43:15","slug":"cortes-museum-highlights-nakatsui-local-history-to-supplement-visiting-exhibit-from-the-nikkei-national-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cortes-museum-highlights-nakatsui-local-history-to-supplement-visiting-exhibit-from-the-nikkei-national-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Nakatsui history highlighted with visiting exhibit from Nikkei National Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cortes Museum has opened an exhibit called <em>The Suitcase Project<\/em> that explores the culture of 4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans in response to the Japanese internment and incarceration during World War II. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several components that have been added to the exhibit to include Cortes-specific history as it relates to Japanese residents from the past and currently on Cortes Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_106141\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106141\" class=\"wp-image-106141 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A large tapestry of fruit hangs central on a wal with old fashioned suitcases piled in front.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1-287x215.jpg 287w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_8252-1.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-106141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The Suitcase Project\" is on display at the Cortes Museum through November. Photo by Melanie Boyle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melanie Boyle, managing director of the Cortes Island Museum, explained that one of the components was focused on a local family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was a fairly well known family called the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.cortesmuseum.com\/en\/list?q=jap+ranch&amp;p=1&amp;ps=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nakatsui family<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026was dedicated to exploring that family. What happened to them, how they arrived and what happened to them after 1942, when the Japanese Canadians were interned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two local Japanese-Canadian artists also contributed to the exhibit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe invited Suzu Matsuda and Ayami Stryck to recreate in a way or reinterpret a possible Japanese home in the middle of last century,\u201d the managing director noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kayla Isomura, a photographer based in Vancouver, created the traveling exhibition <em>The Suitcase Project<\/em> through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/centre.nikkeiplace.org\/museum-exhibits\/travelling-exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei National Museum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Burnaby, BC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the full interview below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cortes Museum has opened an exhibit called The Suitcase Project that explores the culture of 4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans in response to the Japanese internment and incarceration during World War II. 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