Snowcapped Eastern Sierras, Barracks, Guard Post with Kanshi Poem
1940s
Unknown artist

Kanshi are Japanese poems written in Chinese. This poem, written in Manzanar in 1943, describes the beauty of the Eastern Sierra, using a popular format with four lines (read right to left) of seven characters each.
Paper, ink, watercolors. L 30.5, W 22.9 cm
Manzanar National Historic Site, MANZ 7610