Emerging Radiance: Honoring The Nikkei Farmers Of Bellevue

Emerging Radiance, created by filmmaker Tani Ikeda and artist Michelle Kumata, honors the untold stories of Japanese American farmers who lived in Bellevue, WA from 1920 to 1942. Its hand-painted mural and Spark AR Instagram filters invite you to meet Toshio Ito, Rae Matsuoka Takekawa, and Mitsuko Hashiguchi, three survivors of World War II incarceration camps, as they share in their own words their connections to the land before the war, during incarceration, and post-World War II.