7. I taught 140 students in the camp. They all had their kimonos, and wigs were handmade by Matsui Suimin.

  • M – Bando Mitsusa
  • K – Karen Kimura
  • S – Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto
  • P – Pauline Chang
K
It was very close together, so she just started teaching here, and then in camp again. And that was all so amazing that, like she had 140 students in camp…
M
140 students! (laughing)
K
…and that they all had their kimonos with them and they were allowed to bring the proverbial “what you could carry (only)”, and that these families actually had kimono with them even if it was one per student. And a lot of the things there, they improvised. That’s where they made the masks that were used for the various performances out of the dried turnip, and then the Kabuki-style wigs. Rope…?
M
Matsui Suimin. He made the wigs.
K
Dyed the rope with black shoe polish.
M
Shoe polish! How clever, though!
K
And then for the base of the wig, not now, but back in the day, it was a metal base, so he used …
M
A chimney. Imagine!
K
…a chimney as the base.
S
Stove pipe, right?
K
Stove pipe. Amazing!
P
That must not have smelled so good!
K
I’m sure it wasn’t but It served the purpose, and that’s what they did! It was amazing! And the props, like the shamisen, they didn’t have things like that, so from the memory, they made with wood scraps that they had … just amazing what they (could) do.

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