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

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​​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.”