Shikataganai: It Can’t Be Helped, Kinoshita, Sumi. Signed and inscribed by author. Published by FriesenPress, 2014. Card covers. 160pp. with photographs: Sumi narete tochi owarete sokai suru. (Expelled, chased out from the land we lived comfortably) Rokunin no ashi kata nokoshi sokai suru (Evacuation, six small kid’s foot prints left behind.) Sutsu kaisu sageta kodomo wa ureshi garu (Carrying suitcases, kids were so excited) Shin pai wa doko e yukuno ka kane mo nai shi. (No money, destination not known, so worried.) Jinsei no ayumi tsuka reta, shiroi hata (Tired, exhausted of this journey, defeated with white flag). Very light shelf wear to covers and otherwise, in fine condition.
Sumi Kinoshita is a second-generation Canadian born in Victoria, BC in 1938. In 1942, when all people of Japanese ancestry became “enemy aliens” in Canada, her family was forced to move to the interior of British Columbia. Shikataganai: It Can’t Be Helped traces one Japanese-Canadian family’s experience of evacuation and internment during World War II.
