Nidoti Nai Yoni Memorial

"Let it not happen again."  

To commemorate the Japanese Internment and Exclusion during World War II, the Timber Framers Guild built a pavilion and a matched pair of entrance gates for the Memorial Park. The gates were the subject of a workshop on traditional Japanese joinery and tools. Another workshop covered Japanese traditional framing with layout from centerlines.

Client
Bainbridge Island Japanese–American Community

Partners/sponsors
Bainbridge Island WWII Nikkei Internment and Exclusion Memorial Committee of BIJAC
Interfaith

Client contact person
Clarence Moriwaki

Local hero
John Buday

Notable aspects
Japanese-influenced timber framing. Workshop: traditional Japanese joinery, tools, and layout from centerlines.

In-kind donations
Tom Salisbury, North Kitsap/Bainbridge Is. Interfaith Council (food), American Legion #172 (their hall), Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Islands Assn. (food)

TFG leaders
John Buday, Carlos Sosa, Mike Laine, James Wiester

Blog
Nidoti Nai Yoni blog / Internet Archive

News

• Internment Memorial Helps Healing on Bainbridge / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Northwest Asian Weekly, 26 Jan 2007

Tube

• youtube / Channel 2
• Dedication ceremony / Sonny Kwan

Photographer
Tom Salisbury, John Buday, Joel McCarty

Narrative
Scantlings 122, 125, 126

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