Day 13. Japanese Bird Pins: A Delicate Beauty Emerged from WWII Prison Camp.
“Gaman is a Japanese Zen Buddhist term that means ‘enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.'” – Unknown
“As a child, I’d creep down the basement stairs and watch him: hunched over a table, a single lamp lighting his work. First he’d carve a walnut-sized body out of wood. Then he’d take a tiny brush and paint the figure in bright reds and greens and blues, wrap embroidery thread around its spindly wire legs, and top the whole thing with a shiny lacquer. On the back, he’d add a clasp and sign his name in katakana.”
– Susan Shein
Learn More about Japanese Bird Pins: A Delicate Beauty Emerged from WWII Prison Camp at (https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-4/the-untold-history-of-japanese-american-bird-pins).
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