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Warabe Aska

Warabe Aska is a painter and children’s book illustrator.

Teruo Adachi

Teruo (Terry) Adachi was born in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Life took him to Tottori-ken, Japan (ages 6 to 10), Vancouver, B.C. (his teen years), Jackfish and Valetta, Ontario work/farm camps during the war and, finally, Toronto in 1942. He studied painting and drawing in Toronto at Central Tech and the Ontario College of Art […]

Gloria Kagawa

Gloria Kagawa is an established printmaker, painter, and mixed media artist whose works have earned her several awards and are included in a number of public, private, and corporate collections. Gloria has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Gloria grew up in Denver, Colorado, during the 1950s […]

Teruko Kobayashi

Teruko ‘Terry’ Kobayashi was an art historian who wrote about Canadian folk arts. Born in British Columbia, she received her BA from the University of Toronto in 1966, and also attended the Ontario College of Education. She co-authored two books on folk art and furniture, published a number of articles in the 1970s and 1980s, […]

Annie Koyama

Annie Koyama is a publisher and founder of the Toronto-based Koyama Press. After working in graphic arts, set painting, and film, Koyama found herself in advertising making commercials. After a surviving a terminal diagnosis, she decided to dedicate her time and resources to supporting primarily emerging artists. In 2007, she published Koyama Press’s first book, […]

Katherine (Kathi) Adachi

Katherine’s main creative outlet is photography, especially street, architectural and landscape. Despite studying research psychology (University of Toronto, BSc), her working life was spent in graphic design and editing. Katherine was the Publication Designer of secondary and elementary school courses for the Independent Learning Centre, Ontario Ministry of Education from 1979 until 2000, art directing […]

Takashi Tsuji

Takashi Tsuji is a Toronto-based architect. Born in Japan, he received his Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Master of Architecture from the University of Manitoba, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. In 1980, he founded Takashi Tsuji Architects, and has been working on private, commercial, and institutional projects ever since. Some of his projects include the […]

Masa Inokuchi

Masa Inokuchi is a violin-maker and craftsperson. With dreams of using Canadian maple for his violin making, Inokuchi immigrated to Canada with his wife Shoko and three children in 1968. During the years it took to prepare himself towards a career in violin making (which took more than ten years because tone woods need to […]

Kevin Irie

Kevin Irie is a poet and the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority Report, published in 2012. He has been a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, and the ARC Poem of the Year, among others, and won Ricepaper magazine’s […]

Gerry Shikatani

Gerry Shikatani is a poet, food critic, and interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Toronto, he has lived in Montreal and Paris, France, and travelled extensively in Europe and more recently Japan. His literary works include AQUEDUCT: poems and texts from Europe, and co-editing Paper Doors (1981), an anthology of Japanese Canadian poetry, with David […]

Kerri Sakamoto

Kerri Sakamoto is a novelist, screenplay writer, and art critic. Born in Toronto, she studied English and French at the University of Toronto, after which time she worked a variety of jobs, many in libraries, before moving to New York for graduate school. The Electrical Field, her award-winning first novel, looks at the Japanese Canadian […]

Jesse Nishihata

JESSE HIDEO NISHIHATA was a pioneer in Japanese Canadian documentary filmmaking. From 1966-1978 Jesse worked as a contract producer for the CBC-TV Public Affairs Department. During this time Jesse produced and directed numerous documentaries including such films as Watari Dori: A Bird of Passage (1973). Watari Dori uses Jesse’s own family history as a framework […]

George Yabu

George Yabu is an interior designer, and co-founder and partner of Yabu Pushelberg, a holistic design practice with its foundation in Interior Design. The firm’s multidisciplinary approach is informed by an endless curiosity and driven by partnerships with thoughtful, creative like-minded people. Evolving to encompass all aspects of design, including many product collaborations, each new […]

Bryce Kanbara

Bryce Kanbara is a visual artist, curator and proprietor of you me gallery in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a founding member and first administrator of Hamilton Artists Inc.; curatorial positions at the Burlington Art Centre, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, and curator/chair of the Arts Committee at the Japanese Canadian Cultural […]

Toshiko Yoshikawa

“Toshiko Yoshikawa (maiden name Kodama) was born in 1920 on the family owned strawberry farm in Mission B.C. She departed for Hiroshima Japan with her father just prior to the start of the Pacific war. Yoshikawa’s love of ikebana (flower arrangement) started while living in Japan when she asked her husband for permission to take […]