Print Heart Mountain Sutra Stones (8x10) origami paper Accepting an invitation by judo’s

Accepting an invitation by judo’s founder Jigoro Kano

Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during the war

hard enamel with a lapel pin back

tiny Sawtelle has lived very large in the hearts and minds of Japanese Americans

where Aki’s older sister

Print Heart Mountain Sutra Stones (8x10) origami paper Accepting an invitation by judo’sImage of the Sutra stones from Heart Mountain that are in JANM's collection. In the late 1940s, near the site of the Heart Mountain concentration camp cemetery, a bulldozer uncovered a 55 gallon barrel full of stones; each painted with a Japanese character (kanji). It is believed that these stones appear to form a Buddhist sutra or prayer. Around 1600, it was a practice of devout Buddhists to copy sutras a character at a time on stones. When the sutra