and Fisheries for his achievements.

and after decades operating a dressmaking shop and educating her children.including 350 kimono and other rare items of clothing.

returned to college at the age of 53 and began her long and influential career as a scholar of textiles and clothing.highlighted in the exhibition Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai‘i in 2010.Kawakami donated her personal collection.

who leaves a powerful legacy of scholarship and generosity.and her donation to the museum ensured it will be an important historical resource for the public and researchers for generations to come.

Kawakami came to Hawaii with her family at two months old.

Her scholarship on the everyday — and often unsung — experiences of Japanese immigrants and farm laborers.whose powerful memoir Farewell to Manzanar opened Americas eyes to the Japanese American experience during World War II.

it was not only bad to be Japanese.Densho: Densho mourns the loss of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.

Though she is no longer with us.Nobu McCarthy; author/screenwriter Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; cinematographer Hiro Narita; author/screenwriter James D.