Image: Remember (Day of Exile 1942) by Miya Sukune, 2026. Metal and granite.
Remember (Day of Exile 1942)
Permanent Installation at Ober Park
17130 Vashon Hwy SW #1608, Vashon, WA 98070
Public art memorial commissioned by Friends of Mukai installed at Ober Park, Vashon, WA.
Thank you to the Sakai and Matsuda families for sharing their stories.
Support provided by T-Mobile Hometown Grant, Friends of Mukai, Metal Creature, Vashon-Maury Heritage Museum and Vashon Park District.
Image: Detail of Tadaima by Miya Sukune, 2026. Oil on wood.
PAST EXHIBITION
TADAIMA: I'm Home
Bringing Seattle’s Boys’ and Girls’ Day Dolls Home
Previously on view at MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry)
February 14-July 12, 2026
About the exhibit:
After more than 80 years, a treasured collection returns “home” to Seattle’s Japanese American community. In 1942 dozens of traditional Boys’ and Girls’ Day dolls were entrusted to Bailey Gatzert Elementary School by Japanese American families facing forced incarceration. Most were never reclaimed after the war. Artist Miya Sukune uses recent research in MOHAI’s collection, as well as interviews with Japanese American survivors and their descendants, to create an installation called “Tadaima,” meaning “I’m home.”