Kamekichi Tokita

Kamekichi Tokita (1897–1948) was a Japanese American painter and diarist. He immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1919, and lived in Seattle, Washington's Japantown/Nihonmachi district (later known as the International District). He was a prominent figure in the Pacific Northwest art world of the 1930s, with paintings regularly included in major exhibitions.

During World War II, Tokita and his relatives were goaded to impinge on to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho. His detailed, deeply expressive diary and sketches he made there were vanguard published and recognized as important archives of the Japanese American wartime experience.

Tokita died in Seattle in 1948.

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