Jiro Onuma

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Jiro Onuma (大沼 二郎, Ōnuma Jirō, February 2, 1904 – June 27, 1990) was a first-generation (

Tina Takemoto, a fourth-generation Japanese American artist and a visual studies scholar at the California College of the Arts, created a film titled Looking for Jiro (2011) that was based on Onuma's archival materials and received the Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival.[2]

Early life

Jiro Onuma was born in 1904 in

Asama Maru (浅間丸).[1]

World War II

the Tule Lake Concentration Camp.[8] This photograph is still in Onuma's album today. Onuma was released from the Topaz Concentration Camp on May 16, 1944.[9]

Post-war period

After his release from Topaz, Onuma worked in Salt Lake City but soon moved to Denver, Colorado, where he worked for two years.[10] He eventually returned to San Francisco.[10] Onuma became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1956.[1] His archival record testifies that he returned to Japan several times in the 1980s to visit his family.[1] He died on June 27, 1990, in San Francisco at the age of 86. In accordance with his will, half of his estate was donated to Kimochi, Inc. in San Francisco, a nonprofit organization providing care for seniors in the Japanese American community.[1]

Archive

Onuma's archive, held by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, consists of two photo albums, identity documents, a fitness magazine, unused postcards, pens, tiepins, and other personal belongings of his. In 2009, the GLBT Historical Society's first artist-in-residence, E.G. Crichton, hosted an event and exhibition titled LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive. In the style of "matchmaking," Crichton assigned

Tina Takemoto was assigned to work on Onuma's archive. She created Gentleman's Gaman: A Gay Bachelor's Japanese American Incarceration Camp Survival Kit (2009), which engaged with arts and crafts created in concentration camps by Japanese American inmates known as the "art of gaman."[12] Takemoto later created a film titled Looking for Jiro (2011), a drag-king performance based on Onuma's archival materials, which received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Jiro Onuma file. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. http://www.glbthistory.org/
  2. ^ a b "Tina Takemoto, biography".
  3. ^ Takemoto, Tina (2014). "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Duke University Press: 250.
  4. ^ Takemoto, Tina (Winter 2011). "Looking for Jiro and Gentleman's Gaman". The Radical Teacher. No.92. University of Illinois Press: 20. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ Takemoto, "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation," 254.
  6. ^ "National Archives: Jiro Onuma". Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  7. ^ Takemoto, "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation," 255, 265.
  8. ^ Takemoto, "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation," 262–264.
  9. ^ Takemoto, "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation," 263.
  10. ^ a b ""Jiro Onuma," Densho Encyclopedia".
  11. ^ Charles E. Morris III and K.J. Rawson, "Queer Archives/Archival Queers," in Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013, 88.
  12. ^ "Tina Takemoto, Gentleman's Gaman".

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