"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.
Local Partner
Bainbridge Island Japanese–American Community
Other Partners/sponsors
Bainbridge Island WWII Nikkei Internment and Exclusion Memorial Committee of BIJAC
Interfaith
Local Partner Contact
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
News
- Internment Memorial Helps Healing on Bainbridge / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Northwest Asian Weekly, 26 Jan 2007
Tube
- Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial / Channel 2
- Dedication ceremony / Sonny Kwan
Photographer
Tom Salisbury, John Buday, Joel McCarty
Narrative
Scantlings 122, 126
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Project Short Description
Pavilion, 2 torii gates
Project Details
- Location Bainbridge Island, Washington
- Year 2006
Innovative solid-sawn timber, expert service
