Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. He is considered the last great master of that tradition. Located in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany.

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The architecture joint venture of Adachi, Sawano/Matsunaga designed the Japanese American Cultural Community Center in 1983. The Aratani Theatre is part of the comples, an 880-seat, medium-sized theatre with a custom designed Bose® RoomMatch® sound system and a warm, intimate ambiance. Holding its gala grand opening in April 1983, with Kabuki from the National Theatre of Japan, the Aratani Theatre has been a cultural pillar in Little Tokyo for the last three decades. More than $4.2 million of the $6.4 million cost of the Theatre was raised in Japan by a group headed by former Ambassador to the United States, Nobuhiko Ushiba, and Shintaro Fukushima, chairman of the Japan Times. Today, the Aratani Theatre continues to be at the epicenter of Japanese and Japanese American performing arts, and it is also shared by the arts community to showcase the vibrancy and diverse cultures of Southern California and beyond.

A partnership between Bose® and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center has made it possible for the Aratani Theatre to be the first performing arts venue in Southern California to house a newly custom-designed Bose® RoomMatch® sound system. A total audio refit was completed in November 2014 with Bose’s innovative technologies, bringing the theatre’s acoustic performance to new levels of excellence. Another unique feature of the Theatre is the custom-made doncho (curtain) of handwoven silk, made in Kyoto, featuring a colorful giant peacock soaring over a flurry of cherry blossom petals. The only other donchos in the United States are in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The Aratani Theatre is on the campus of theJapanese American Cultural & Community Center located at 244 S Pedro Street in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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The Aratani Theatre is an 880-seat, medium-sized theatre with a custom designed Bose® RoomMatch® sound system and a warm, intimate ambience. Holding its gala grand opening in April 1983, with Kabuki from the National Theatre of Japan, the Aratani Theatre has been a cultural pillar in Little Tokyo for the last three decades. More than $4.2 million of the $6.4 million cost of the Theatre was raised in Japan by a group headed by former Ambassador to the United States, Nobuhiko Ushiba, and Shintaro Fukushima, chairman of the Japan Times. Today, the Aratani Theatre continues to be at the epicenter of Japanese and Japanese American performing arts, and it is also shared by the arts community to showcase the vibrancy and diverse cultures of Southern California and beyond.

A partnership between Bose® and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center has made it possible for the Aratani Theatre to be the first performing arts venue in Southern California to house a newly custom-designed Bose® RoomMatch® sound system. A total audio refit was completed in November 2014 with Bose’s innovative technologies, bringing the theatre’s acoustic performance to new levels of excellence. Another unique feature of the Theatre is the custom-made doncho (curtain) of handwoven silk, made in Kyoto, featuring a colorful giant peacock soaring over a flurry of cherry blossom petals. The only other donchos in the United States are in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The Aratani Theatre is on the campus of theJapanese American Cultural & Community Center located at 244 S Pedro Street in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Located in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, the Japanese American National Museum is devoted to the history and culture of Japanese Americans. The museum contains over 100,000 feet of 16 mm and 8 mm home movies of Japanese Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s, as well as artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories dating back to the first Issei generation.

Located at 369 East 1st Street in Little Tokyo. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

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Makoto "Mako" Iwamatsu was a Japanese American actor, voice artist and singer best known for his roles as Po-Han in The Sand Pebbles (1966) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Oomiak "The Fearless One" in The Island at the Top of the World (1974), Akiro the Wizard in Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Kungo Tsarong in Seven Years in Tibet (1997). Almost all of his acting roles credited him as Mako. He was part of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 Broadway musical Pacific Overtures, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He was also one of the founding members of East West Players.

Later in his career, he became well known for his voice-over roles like Aku in Samurai Jack (2001–2004) and Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2006). He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7095 Hollywood Blvd.

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