Sadayoshi Omoto Papers
UA.17.344

Summary Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Administrative Information
Controlled Access Headings
Collection Inventory: MSU Art Department; Professional Activities; Teaching: Course Syllabi and Lecture Notes; Personal; Student files - Omoto; Electronic Resources

Summary Information

Repository: Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Creator: Omoto, Sadayoshi
Title: Sadayoshi Omoto papers
ID: UA.17.344
Date: 1894, 1942-2013, undated
Extent: 10.0 Cubic feet
Language: English

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."

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Biographical Note

Sadayoshi Omoto was born on October 5, 1922 on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington before being interned at Manzanar Relocation Center due to Executive Order 9066. He was able to leave the camp to join the U.S. Army and trained in linguistics at the Military Intelligence Service Language School. After the war Omoto attended Oberlin College and received his B.A. He went on to receive an M.A. in Art from Michigan State University and Ph.D. in Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. His M.A. thesis was "Social Protest Artists in Western Art;" his Ph.D. dissertation was "Some Aspects of the So-Called 'Queen Anne.'" Omoto taught Art History at Bradley College in Illinois and Wayne State University. He started at MSU in September 1964 as an associate professor. He went on to become a full professor, then chair of the MSU Art department. In 2008 the University of Washington awarded him, together with the UW Nikkei students from 1941-42, an honorary B.A. During his lifetime he was involved in exhibits, architectural surveys for the state of Michigan and research on art. After he retired in 1994, Omoto became involved in the Leelanau Community Center in Leland, Michigan, the home of the old MSU Summer Art School. Omoto passed away on March 4, 2013.

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Scope and Content

The Sadayoshi Omoto papers contain material related to his career and personal life. Omoto's professional material include teaching material such as syllabi, lecture notes and exams. Also included are memos, correspondence and committee files relating to the Michigan State University Art Department. There is also material related to Omoto's research and publications on Worthington Whittredge, Queen Anne-style architecture in Ohio, architectural surveys of Michigan, and Japanese American artists. There is also material related to the inventory of Michigan paintings and the subsequent exhibitions, "Early Michigan Paintings" and "The Michigan Experience." Other material includes Omoto’s student notes, and his involvement in the art scene in Leland, Michigan, home to the MSU Summer Art School from the 1940s to 1980s. Also included are materials related to Executive Order 9066 and the Manzanar Relocation Center. Materials include lectures Omoto gave on his experience, articles about Omoto, articles on the Bainbridge Island evacuees, and information on evacuees and their art.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections

Conrad Hall
888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu

Revision Description

Added electronic resource CW September 2016 added accession January 2015

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Legal Status

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Custodial History

Gift of Kathryn Bishop Omoto.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

Leelanau Community Cultural Center (Leland, Mich.).
Michigan State University. Department of Art.
Michigan State University. Leland Art School.

Genre(s)

Catalogs
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Letters (correspondence)
Outlines and syllabi
Photographs
Publications
Speeches

Personal Name(s)

Omoto, Kathryn Bishop
Omoto, Sadayoshi
Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910

Subject(s)

Architecture -- Michigan
Architecture, Queen Anne
Art -- Study and teaching
Art, American -- Michigan
Historic sites -- Michigan
Japanese American art
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

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Collection Inventory

	Box	Folder
Biographical Materials— Curriculum Vitae, Chronology, photographs	5062	1
MSU Art Department
	Box	Folder
Art Department, MSU. Peer Review 1992	5062	2
Equipment/Supply Requests 1992	5062	3
Labor Budget 1991-1992	5062	4
Committees 1991-1992	5062	5
Studio Art Committee Minutes 1992	5062	6
Faculty Meeting Minutes, correspondence 1989-1992	5062	7
History of Art (HA) 480. Historic Preservation. Fieldwork- Redundant Churches Fall 1991	5062	8
Emergency Incident Report 1992	5062	9
Self-appraisal. Non-tenured 1991-1992	5062	10
Dean Michael S. Koppisch. Communications 1989-1991	5062	11
3-D Studio Artist Visiting Assistant Professor Search 1992	5062	12
2-D Arts in Painting and Drawing. Visiting Assistant Professor Search 1992-1993	5062	13
Graduate Assistant Responsibilities 1990	5062	14
Wood Shop Facilities 1992	5062	15
Faculty Affairs Committee 1992	5062	16
Office. Debra Stewart. Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award Submission. 1992	5062	17
Travel Requests 1991-1992	5062	18
Dean John W. Eadie. Communications. 1991-1992	5062	19
HA (History of Art) HA 205. History of Chinese Art-Purposes of Art. Winter 1992	5062	20
Kresge Art Museum 1990-1994	5062	21
APP and R for 1992-1993. 1992	5062	22
Center for Integrated Studies (CIS). Introduction to Art and the Humanities (IAH 201). Warren Cohen 1991	5062	23
Mentoring Committee 1991	5062	24
Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts & Humanities 1991	5062	25
Lesbian and Gay. Task Force 1991	5062	26
Asian Studies Center. Faculty Minutes 1991-1992	5062	27
Academic Program, MA Art History- catalogue changes 1991	5062	28
American Airlines. Transportation for visiting artist circa 1992	5062	29
Black Graduate Students Association. Fall Reception 1991	5062	30
Rohman, Gordon, Lecture invitation 1992	5062	31
MSU Union Art Collection Committee 1992	5062	32
Faculty Travel 1992-1993	5062	33
Advisory Committee 1992-1993	5062	34
Promotion Process 1992	5062	35
HA 465 Twentieth Century American Art to 1945, Syllabus and Budget Request 1991	5062	36
Dean John Eadie. Correspondence 1992	5062	37
Faculty - faculty listing, memoranda, meeting minutes, new year introductions 1992-1993	5062	38
HA 491 Latin American Art. memos. Susan Morris 1992	5062	39
Committees. Art Department 1991-1992	5062	40
Arts Management Emphasis. Program proposal 1992	5062	41
Advisory Committee. Agendas, meeting minutes, etc. 1991-1992	5062	42
Art History Division 1992	5062	42
Manistee Victorian Conference 1990	5062	44
Lawton, James. Correspondence, memoranda 1990-1992	5062	45
Faculty Memos 1991-1992	5062	46
Advisory Committee, Art Department, MSU 1979-1980	5064	6
Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, Art Department, MSU 1980-1981	5064	7
General Education Proposal 1980	5064	13
Revised Master of Arts and Graduate Assistants 1978-1979	5064	15
Chairperson, Art Department, Selection Process 1984	5064	16
Advisory Committee 1984-1985	5064	17
Planning Committee, Art Department 1983-1984	5064	20
Faculty Meeting Minutes, Art Department 1982-1983	5064	21
Faculty Meeting Minutes, Art Department 1983	5064	22
College Graduate Committee, College of Arts and Letters, MSU 1989-1990	5064	29
Honors Committee, College of Arts and Letters 1967-1969	5169	19-20
Faculty Affairs Committee 1985-1989	5062	54
John S. deMartelly exhibit catalog, Kresge Art Museum, MSU 1970	5167	24
Atlas of Michigan project, Department of Geography, MSU 1975	5167	25
Kresge Art Center Bulletins May 1970-July 1972
	Box	Folder
May 1970-July 1972	5167	27
October 1972-July 1974	5167	28
October 1974- June 1977	5167	29
	Box	Folder
Michigan State University Art Collection: Selections from the Kresge Art Center Bulletin edited by Paul Love 1974	5167	30
	Drawer	Folder
Doug Tyler (MSU Alumni) portraits on barns - images in magazine undated	LFD	1
Photographs - Doug Tyler (MSU Alumni) portraits on barns undated	LFD	2
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Professional Activities
	Box	Folder
All-University Research Grant - The Life and Works of Worthington Whittredge 1966-1968	5064	8
Bicentennial Painting Inventory Michigan Council for the Arts grant contract [supporting documents- does not contain inventory] 1974-1975	5064	9
Federalist Era Conference, UM- Flint 1986	5064	10
History of Art (HA) 464 Historic Preservation, University Consortium Center 1981	5064	11
History of Art (HA) 221, History of Western Art, Grand Rapids 1984	5064	12
Research for Publications
	Box	Folder
Vernacular Architecture Forum- Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 1980-1982	5063	18
“Fight Below the Battlements, An Early Landscape by Worthington Whittredge,” KAC Bulletin Article Draft by Omoto 1986	5063	19
Kalamazoo Public Library Presentation on Japanse American Internment	5063	20
Correspondence-replies to Omoto queries on Ohio architecture, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne style from Clarence Ward, H. R. Hitchcock, Walter Creese, Hugh Morrison and others 1951-1952	5063	21
Research. D. H. Day. Day Forest Estates, Glen Lake-Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Crystal Downs, Frankfort vicinity. 1967, undated	5063	22
Queen Anne definitions	5063	23
Queen Anne research primary sources- American Architect and Building News 1876-1891. undated	5063	24
Queen Anne research primary sources- English periodicals up to about 1900. undated	5063	25
Queen Anne research primary sources American periodicals up to about 1900	5063	26
Queen Anne research primary- secondary sources- English books undated	5063	27
Queen Anne research primary- secondary sources- American books, including builders’ guides undated	5063	28
Queen Anne research secondary sources- periodicals since 1900-English and American undated	5063	29
Queen Anne research primary- secondary sources various undated	5063	30
Research: The Brickbuilder undated	5063	31
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society - Patterned Brickwork in Southern New Jersey by Paul Love (MSU) article July 1955	5063	32
Publications: Wayne State University undated	5063	34
Modern Art Winter, Number 1894
	Box	Folder
Clippings 1964, 1967, 1973, undated	5064	1
Gothic Revival- research notes undated	5064	2
Publications-Reprints of articles by colleagues at MSU and WSU, including John F. A. Taylor, Webster Smith, Paul Varg, Bernard Goldman	5064	3
Omoto. Review of A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevesner for Michigan History Magazine, together with PostScript by Kathryn B. Eckert circa 1976	5064	4
Omoto, Sadayoshi. “Forces of Living Nature Essence of Chinese Art,” Lansing State Journal May 27, 1976, A-11 circa 1976, 1979	5064	5
Whittredge
	Box	Folder
View from the Hawks Nest undated	5168	16
Kennedy Galleries Exhibition of Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting. Price list. 1969	5168	17
		Box
Princeton. Completed Commissions and other pictures oversized undated		2745
	Box	Folder
Katzenbach. Completed Commissions and Other Pictures undated	5168	18
Correspondence Tomko to Sadayoshi Omoto on "Beach at Newport" (with photograph) August 19, 1971	5168	19
Notes 1961-1967, undated	5168	20
Brochures and Flyers from Galleries 1970-1971
	Box	Folder
Photographs. Paintings. "Second Beach, Newport" and "Third Beach, Newport"	5168	22
Notes	5168	23
Duplicate photographs. Kennedy Galleries	5168	24
Photograph. Painting. "Dry Brook, Arkville, Catskills" 1972	5168	25
Ira Spanierman, correspondence and photograph, landscape identification 1969	5168	26
List of Paintings and Study in the Woods undated	5168	27
Manuscript and correspondence, “The Sketchbooks of Worthington Whittredge" by Omoto 1964-1969	5168	28
Thomas Worthington Whittredge, The Painter Who Stayed Home by Omoto American Studies talk November 6, 1965	5168	29
Photograph and Correspondence, "Platte River, Colorado" by S.G. Hill 1968	5168	30
Old Checked Forms undated	5168	31
Material for Catalogue Purposes undated	5168	32
Photos and cuts of Whittredge Sketchbook for article in College Art Journal undated	5168	33
Notes undated	5168	34
Photographs. Whittredge Sketchbook drawings undated	5168	35
Correspondence and collection inventory sheets 1950	5168	36
Photograph. Account Book Page. Completed Commissions and other Pictures undated	5168	37
Bills for Photos and Slides 1960-1968	5168	38
Transcript of Letter Whittredge to S.P. Avery December 4, 1877	5168	39
Article and Correspondence "Berkeley and Whittredge at Newport" by Omoto 1963-1965	5168	40
Draft "Berkeley and Whittredge at Newport" by Omoto undated	5168	41
Draft "The Sketchbooks of Worthington Whittredge" by Omoto undated	5168	42
Clark County Ohio notes and letter from Bern Wayne State University undated	5168	51
Worthington Whittredge Inventory Forms
	Box	Folder
Unidentified Landscapes - US undated	5180	17
Identified Landscapes - Europe undated	5180	18
Western Landscapes - US undated	5180	19
Unidentified Landscapes - Europe undated	5180	20
Identified Landscapes - US (Eastern) 1970, undated	5180	21
Genre undated	5180	22
Genre "B" Berkeley's House undated	5180	23
Seascapes undated	5180	24
Still Life undated	5180	25
Mexican Scenes undated	5180	26
Portraits undated	5180	27
Drawings undated	5180	28
Doubtful Works undated	5180	29
	Box	Folder
Correspondence: Research Whittredge (IN), 1950-1964 1950-1964	5180	30
Correspondence: Research Whittredge (Out), 1950-1964 1950-1964	5180	31
Correspondence: Research Whittredge (In), 1965-1976 1965-1976	5180	32
Correspondence: Research Whittredge (Out), 1965-1976 1965-1976	5180	33
Whittredge (Author's Query): Replies, 1959 1959-1960	5180	34
Whittredge Photos and Negatives 1950-1967	5180	35
Bulletins: Whittredge 1942-1966	5180	36
Whittredge articles, 1964, 1965, undated 1964-1965	5180	37
[Photos and information - Bishop Berkeley's House, The Cypresses in the Villa D'este at Tivoli, undated] 1968	5180	38
[Art catalogs about Whittredge] 1969-1982	5180	39
[Art catalogs with reference to Whittredge] 1968-1973	5180	40
Whittredge: Clippings, 1959, 1965, undated 1959-1965	5180	41
[Photos of Whittredge paintings] 1968-1969	5180	42
[Draft of article about Worthington Whittredge, undated]	5180	43
[Photographs of Whittredge paintings and inventory forms] 1967-1968	5180	44
[Omoto manuscript, undated]	5180	45
[Articles by Omoto about Whittredge, 1964, 1965] 1964-1965	5180	46
	Box	Folder
“The Prairie School, Historic Preservation and Sault Ste. Marie,” Small Towns Institute, article drafts and correspondence 1980-1981	5168	43
“The Prairie School, Historic Preservation and Sault Ste. Marie,” Small Towns Institute, article drafts, correspondence, and research 1978-1981	5168	44
Arthur Parton research 1968, undated	5168	45
American Nineteenth Century Painting exhibit catalog Kresge Art Center 1966	5168	46
The New Ironwood Theater in Context: Movie Palace as a Sympbol by Marianne Triponi 1990	5168	47
Photograph - Washington Crossing the Delaware painting by Emanuel Leutze undated	5168	48
Raydon Gallery Review - American Artists Abroad Spring 1970	5168	49
Photographs - Two Queen Anne Houses in Ohio December 1963	5168	50
Thackery Research Notes undated	5168	52
Thackery and Architectural Taste by Omoto article and correspondence 1966-1967	5168	53
Book reviews by Omoto articles and correspondence 1965-1966, 1970	5168	54
Thackery and Architectural Taste by Omoto article and drafts circa 1966	5168	55
Queen Anne and Architectural Criticism by Omoto drafts undated	5168	56
Book Reviews by Omoto circa 1961-1967	5168	57
Towards Preserving our Heritage: Examples of Buildings Photographed in a Research Project on the Gothic Revival Style (c1830-1870) in Ohio circa 1951-circa 1952	5168	58
Our Ohio Heritage: A Guide to the State's Domestic Goth Revival Architecture by Sadayoshi Omoto 1953	5168	59
Floor Plans and Elevations Ohio House Queen Ann Style undated	5168	60
MSU Honorary Instructor Award Eli Broad College of Business undated	5168	61
A Development of Thai Architecture by Ekachai Suntornpong 1958	5169	6
Some Aspects of the So-Called "Queen Anne" Revival Style Architecture by Sadayoshi Omoto 1954	5179	12
Group of Seven and Canadian Art lecture 2000	5179	47
Color Slides - Group of Seven and Canadian Art lecture	5180	1
Articles by Omoto, 1967, 1968, 1972 1967-1972	5180	47
	Box	Folder
Grand Haven Historic Site Survey 1981	5064	14
US Department of Interior, National Park Service Grant 1980-1984	5064	18
Horticulture Building, MSU. National Register of Historic Places. Draft nominations 1989	5064	28
Japanese- American Art Notes undated	5062	55
Japan Council 1980-1986	5062	56
Leland Historic Preservation Workshop 1987	5062	57
Manuscripts and Talks for Revision. Omoto. “The So-Called Queen Anne Style,” Midwest College Art Association Conference, Madison, October 1959; “Trade Journals in Nineteenth Century Architectural Criticism;” “Architectural Criticism: Late Nineteenth Century,” Michigan Academy, March 24, 1961; “Man’s Search: the Christian Context,” Calvin Presbyterian Church, Detroit, May 28, 1967; “The Search in American Art,” YWCA, Jan 26, 1970; “Zen Buddhism” 1959-1970, undated	5063	1
Omoto. Arts and Letters. Research Application 1967	5063	2
Michigan State University, Art Department, Omoto Appointment as Associate Professor of Art, 1964	5063	3
Omoto, Personal-MSU- 1970s-1980s	5063	4-7
Meridian Township County Trustee 1974-1975	5063	8
Resort Architecture undated	5063	9
Sault Ste. Marie Talk 1987	5063	10
Miriam Rutz- Historic Landscape Preservation 1986	5063	11
“A Tibetan Thanka in the MSU Art Collection”- Sadayoshi Omoto Draft undated	5063	12
Exhibits
Bicentennial Inventory of Michigan Paintings Executed before 1914. Sadayoshi Omoto, with National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution.
	Box	Folder
Project materials. 1974-1975	5167	31-32
Information sent 1974	5167	33
Correspondence	5167	34
Early Michigan Paintings
	Box	Folder
Notes on exhibition and catalogue with edits.	5167	35
Catalogue manuscript with edits	5167	36
Catalogue. Final Draft	5167	37
Selected Bibliography. Ilene Schecter.	5167	38
Notes on Exhibition and Catalogue	5168	1
Catalogue manuscript- Acknowledgements, Lenders, Schedule of Exhibition, Preface, Introduction	5168	2
Catalogue. Bibliography	5168	3
Correspondence 1976-1977	5168	4
Photographs. Exhibition. Escanaba	5168	5
Photographs. Exhibition. Calvin College	5168	6
Photographs. Exhibition. Alpena	5168	7
Photographs. Exhibition. Kresge Art Center 1977	5168	8
Inventory. Talk, slide list. Catalogue in print	5168	9
Early Michigan Paintings exhibit catalog 1976	5168	10
Early Michigan Paintings. Bicentennial. Traveling Exhibition. 1976.
	Box	Folder
Grant requests -Jack Wolfram Foundation, Michigan Council for the Arts. 1974	5066	1
Funding. Michigan Council for the Arts 1975-1976	5066	2
Funding. Michigan Council for the Arts Mini-Grant 1976-1977	5066	3
Final Report of Expenditures and project information 1976-1978	5066	4
Travel Expenses and Lecture correspondence 1977	5066	5
Invitations and Acknowledgments 1975, undated	5066	6
List of paintings to be photographed and exhibited at Kresge Art Center Museum. 1976	5066	7
Lansing Area Art to be Photographed undated	5066	8
Duncanson Painting of Lewis Cass correspondence 1971, 1975-19777	5066	9
List of Michigan Artists to be checked for photos of the artists and or the artists’ works 1974, undated	5066	10
New Communication and Articles about the Exhibition 1974-1976, 1986, undated	5066	11
Early Michigan Paintings catalogue 1976	5066	12
	Box	Folder
Michigan Experience Exhibit and Regional Representative for Vose Archive Dictionary of American Painters project 1978-1986	5066	13
Michigan Experience Omoto lecture undated	5066	14
Color slides. Michigan Paintings undated	5066	15
Transmittal letter by Omoto to National Museum of American Art for materials on Michigan Painters June 29, 1994	5066	16
Artists in Michigan, 1900-1976: A Biographical Dictionary, Detroit, WSU with Archives of American Art, etc. 1989	5066	17
Mathias Alten and Charles Lanman - Michigan Experience exhibit 1984-1985	5168	66
	Box	Folder
“A Rogers Group in the MSU Art Collection,” “Coming to the Parson”. Article. Draft by Sadayoshi Omoto 1977, undated	5063	13
Historic Preservation 1979-1988	5063	14
Visual Arts Symposium- Visiting Artists 1982	5063	17
General Library, University of Michigan, Photograph and negative July 1897.	5168	11
General Correspondence 1973-1974	5167	23
Publications with articles by Omoto 1964, 1971, 1980	5062	60
Architectural and Historic Sites Surveys
	Box	Folder
Architectural Survey of the Little and Grand Traverse Bay Region 1974, 1976	5066	18
Report, An Architectural Survey of the Little and Grand Traverse Region 1975	5066	19
Architectural Survey of the Western Upper Peninsula 1975-1976	5066	20
Report, An Architectural Survey of the Western Upper Peninsula 1976	5066	21
Architectural Survey of the Western and Central Upper Peninsula. 1975	5066	22
Architectural Survey of Eastern Upper Peninsula 1975-1977	5066	23
Architectural Survey of Eastern Upper Peninsula - Financial 1976-1977	5066	24
Architectural Survey of Southwestern Michigan 1977-1978	5066	25
Architectural Survey of Southwestern Michigan - Financial 1976-1978	5066	26
Architectural Survey of Southwestern Michigan - MSU Foundation Grant 1977	5066	27
Architectural Survey of Southwestern Michigan - Financial 1977, 1979-1980	5066	28
Architectural Survey of Southwestern Michigan Reimbursemt 1976-1979	5066	29
Architectural Survey of Mid-Michigan: Barry, Calhoun, Branch, and Kalamazoo Counties. 1978-1979	5066	30
Historic Sites Inventory and National Register of Historic Places nominations for Isle Royale, South Manitou Island, Glen Haven, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. 1967, 1975-1976	5066	31
	Box	Folder
Manitou Island and Sleeping Bear Dunes 1977-1978	5066	32
Isle Royale, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks 1975-1977	5066	33
Indiana Dunes, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks 1976-1977	5066	34
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks 1976-1977	5066	35
South Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes 1977-1978	5066	36
South Manitou Island color slides 1977	5066	37
North Mantou color slides and negatives 1979	5066	38
Sleeping Bear Dunes 1977-1978	5066	39
Sleeping Bear Dunes, North and South Manitou Islands 1977	5066	40
Sleeping Bear Dunes, North and South Manitou Islands 1977-1979	5066	41
Shunichi Hagiwara South Manitou Island Field notes August 1977	5066	42
North Manitou Island map 1977
Lighthouse - National Register nomination correspondence 1977	5066	44
Coastal Zone Management Program Historic Properties: Preliminary Report, Fay Hendry and Rosemary Papp; The Distribution and Abundance of Archaeological Sites in the Coastal Zone of Michigan: Preliminary Report, Christopher S. Peebles and Deborah Bush Black 1976	5066	45
Resource Materials in Preservation Education- Photography project 1976	5167	1
Historic Sites Inventory and National Register of Historic Places nominations Indiana Dune and Cook County Illinois Forest Preserve 1975-1976	5167	2
An Archaeological Survey and Architectural Evaluation of Historic Structures on the Proposed I-69 Freeway from Charlotte to I-96, Eaton County Michigan. Lovis, William A., and Margaret B. Holman, MSU Museum, together with Sadayoshi Omoto and Margaret Slater. 1982	5064	30-31
Omoto, Sadayoshi. “Michigan Architecture,” Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, Department of State	5167	26
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Teaching: Course Syllabi and Lecture Notes
	Box	Folder
HA 205 Purposes of Art, HA 207 1989-1992	5064	32-33
HA 474 Art of Japan: Momoyama to Present 1979-1990	5062	49
HA 471 Art of China 1965-1988	5062	50
HA 473 Art of Japan: Pre-Buddhist to Momoyama 1965-1989	5062	51
Exams - various classes 1963-1983	5062	53
IAH 211 Class (Chung) 1998	5063	15
HA 480 Historic Preservation 1976-1987	5062	52
HA 206 Survey notes undated	5064	34
HA 207 Survey notes undated	5064	35
HA 208 Survey notes undated	5064	36-37
HA 460 17th-18th Century American Art Binder 1 undated	5065	1
HA 460 17th-18th Century American Art Binder 2 undated	5065	2
HA 463 19th Century American Painting undated	5065	3-4
HA 464 19th Century American Architecture and Sculpture (I) undated	5065	5
HA 464 19th Century American Architecture and Sculpture (II) undated	5065	6
HA 465 20th Century American Art to 1945 (I) undated	5065	7-8
HA 465 20th Century American Art (II) undated	5065	9-10
HA 480 Historic Preservation and Planning in the US 1990	5065	11-12
HA 480 Historic Preservation (II) undated	5065	13
HA 471 Art of China (I) undated	5065	14-15
HA 471 Art of China (II) undated	5065	16
HA 472 Art of India (I) undated	5065	17
HA 472 Art of India (II) undated	5065	18
HA 473 Art of Japan: Pre-Buddhist to the Momoyama Period (I) undated	5065	19
HA 473 Art of Japan: Pre-Buddhist to the Momoyama Period (II) undated	5065	20
HA 474 Art of Japan: Momoyama to the Present (I) undated	5065	21
HA 474 Art of Japan: Momoyama to the Present (II) undated	5065	22
Examinations Art 171, 271, 577, 670, 673, 675 1963-1964	5064	27
History of Art (HA) 480. Historic Preservation. Field project in Eaton Rapids, MI 1987	5168	12
History of Art (HA) 481. Historic Preservation Planning. Field project in Charlotte, MI 1988	5168	13
History of Art (HA) 480. Historic Preservation. Field project in Dewitt, MI	5168	14
History of Art (HA 481 Historic Preservation Planning. Field work project, Turner-Dodge House, Lansing MI-	5168	15
History of Art (HA) 481 Historic Preservation Planning 1985-1990	5062	48
HA 206 History of Western Art Winter 1980	5064	19
HA 208 History of Western Art 1979-1981	5064	23
HA 207, History of Western Art 1982-1983	5064	24
HA 470, HA 472, HA 475 Art of India 1964-1982	5064	25
HA 208 History of Western Art - Baroque to Present 1984-1986	5064	26
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Personal
	Box	Folder
Applying for Teaching Positions 1957-1964	5169	12
Ford Foundation Fellowship - University of Wisconsin 1965	5169	13-14
War Relocation Authority, FBI report 1942-1943	5169	15
Personal file Pre MSU 1959-1966	5169	16-17
Sabbatical to Japan 1972	5169	18
Negatives- Photo reproductions of paintings 1967	5169	21
Negatives- Photo reproductions of paintings and sketches 1970	5169	22
Negatives - Halftones Art Subjects 1972	5169	23
Negatives- Halftones 1971	5169	24
Personal MSU documents 1965-1978	5169	25-27
Bainbridge Island HIstorical Museum newsletter - article on baseball by Omoto, Omoto obituary 2013	5169	28
Articles about Omoto	5179	10
Personal - Miscellaneous	5179	11
Veterans Day 2001, 2004. 2005	5180	4
The Japanese American Perspective on World War II Omoto Veteran's Day lecture 2004	5180	5
Christianity and Japanese Art internet research 2000	5180	14
Christianity and Japanese Art and Culture lecture by Omoto, HA 120 2000	5180	15
Regionalism Revisited Lecture by Omoto 2010	5180	16
Executive Order 9066, Evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Minadoka
	Box	Folder
Executive Order 9066: Fifty Years Before and Fifty Years After: A history of Japanese Americans in Seattle by David Takami 1992	5169	29
The Japanese Americans in World War II lecture script by Omoto 2004	5169	30
Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Americans and their Art lecture script by Omoto 2000	5169	31
The Manzanar Experience lecture script by Omoto undated	5169	32
List of Bainbridge Japanese American evacuees and Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Newsletter- article about Bainbridge evacuees visit to Manzanar Historic Site 2011, undated	5169	33
Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Americans and their Art lecture script by Omoto and other articles 2001	5169	34
Executive Order 9066, the Internment, and Japanese Americans and their Art lecture script by Omoto and other articles 2002	5169	35
Internment of Japanese Americans articles 1983-2007	5169	36
Internment of Japanese Americans articles, article about Omoto, information about Anson Burwell 1935, 1943, 2001-2002	5169	37
Military Secrets: A Case of Government Misconduct in the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans edited by Beverly Keever 1992	5169	38
Military Intelligence Service Association - Kansha Project 2004-2005	5169	39
Evacuation of Bainbridge Island and Internment articles 1977, 1999-2000	5169	40
Letter to Bainbridge Historical Society about Ansel Adams Born Free and Equal exhibit 2001	5169	41
Evacuation, Redress and Civil Liberties Act of 1988 1984-1991	5179	1
Bainbridge Island Japanese America Memorial 2002-2005	5179	2
University of Washington - Seattle Honorary Degree 2008-2011	5179	3
Executive Order 9066, Sixty Years Later; Evacuation and Internment material, Manzanar Historic Site 2002, 2004,undated	5179	4
Snow Falling on Cedars book - Omoto commentary and involvement in community reading event 2010, undated	5179	5
Newspaper clippings- Executive Order 9066 and Interment 1979-2012	5179	6
Executive Order 9066 slides	5179	7
Asian American art slides	5179	8
Relocation and Relocation Camps slides	5179	9
Executive Order 9066 articles 2000-2002	5063	16
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The Mindidoka Irrigator December 23, 1944		2745
Articles - Bainbridge Japanese Americans, Minidoka 1989, 2004		2745
Dictionary of Japanese American Artists in the United States
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Japanese American Artists, 1893-1945 lecture by Omoto at Midwest American Culture Association meeting 1993	5179	13
Inquiry letter, form and addresses 1993	5179	14
Responses to Inquiry 1993	5179	15
Research Notes - Japanese American Artists 2000	5179	16
Modern Art From the Pacific Northwest by in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum by Barbara Johns 1990	5179	17
San Francisco State University - With New Eyes exhibit October 1995	5179	18
Newspapers in Towns/Cities in the Vicinity of Relocation Centers 1994-1995, undated	5179	19
Japanese American Artists Research 1982-1995, undated	5179	20
Karen Higa, Curator, Japanese American National Museum correspondence 1995	5179	21
Research on Artists undated	5179	22
Follow up correspondence 1993-1994	5179	23
National Archives - Data from WRA Form 26: Evacuee Summary Data 1993	5179	24
Research 1993-1994	5179	25
Research - Library and other sources 1991-1994	5179	26
Archives of American Art undated	5179	27
National Archives Printout by Primary Occupation Artists undated	5179	28
Correspondence and Notes 1993-1998	5179	29
Responses Entered undated	5179	30
Research Trip Notes 1994	5179	31
UCLA - Japanese American Research Center Research Trip circa 1996	5179	32
Rafu Shimp, Los Angeles Japanese Daily News notes undated	5179	33
Reseach 1977-1994, undated	5179	34
Archives of American Art - Directory of Asian American Artists in Washington and Oregon (1900-1975) 1990, 1994	5179	35
"The Art of Gaman" article and exhibition 2011	5179	36
Leelanau Community Cultural Center (old MSU Summer Art School)
	Box	Folder
Old Art Building newsletters - The Leelanau Community Cultural Center at the Old Art Building 2005, 2009-2013	5179	37
MSU Summer Art School, Activities 1964, 1971-1975	5179	38
Research Notes 1995-1996, undated	5179	39
Research Notes on Historic Art building - Leelanau Enterprise	5179	40
Oral Histories a Retrospective Exhibition 1989	5179	41
Summer Art School 50 Year Celebration proposal, State Register nomination 1993	5179	42
Art Students League Questionnaire 2001	5179	43
Leelanau Artists, Minutes, Notes 2002-2003	5179	44
Leelanau Art Group 2002-2003	5179	45
Leelanau Artists Winter III Show 2003	5179	46
Leelanau Sesquicentennial Exhibit circa 2004	5180	2
Exhibition of Leelanau Artists at Stone House Bread & Café 2005	5180	3
MSU Leland Art School 2006-2007	5180	6
Leelanau Artists 2006-2007	5180	7
MSU Artists Celebrating Past and Present Exhibition Planning 2007	5180	8
MSU Art Department and Leland Art School Anniversary Event Planning 2007	5180	9
MSU Artists Celebrating Past and Present exhibition catalog 2007	5180	10
Leelanau Community Cultural Center Board materials 2009-2010	5180	11
Old Art Building Class, Exhibit, Sale 2009	5180	12
Leelanau Art Group 2012	5180	13
Rural Reflections: Agriculture in Leelanau County Omoto guest curator undated	5180	18
Portrait of Omoto by Fred Petrosky Commissioned by Leelanau Artists to Honor Omoto 2012	5062	58
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Student files - Omoto
Class Notes
	Box	Folder
Art 364 History Modern Art- Garrison, MSC undated	5167	3
Art 365c- Art 368a History North American Art, Art 368a History of Prints- class notes- Abell, MSC 1950	5167	4
Art 365c, 368a Reading Notes	5167	5
Fine Arts 672, History of Islamic Art, History of the Arts of the Renaissance- Fanning; Northern Renaissance- Holmes, OSU 1951	5167	6
FA 656 Oriental Art- Holmes -OSU undated	5167	7
FA 681 History of English Art, Fanning, OSU undated	5167	8
FA 682 American Art- Danes, FA 803 Modern Criticism- Holmes- OSU undated	5167	9
FA 895a History of Arts of the Renaissance in Italy- Fanning - OSU 1951
	Box	Folder
Reading notes- Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship for the 1965 Summer Inter-University Rotating Program on South Asia. Studies in the field of philosophy and religion. UW undated	5167	11
Sanskrit Literature in Translation, UW 1965	5167	12
Brahmanism and Classical Hinduism; Indian Philosophy Seminar, UW 1965	5167	13
Art 360: Italina Painting of the Renaissance undated	5169	7
Art 356B and Art 361 Reading notes undated	5169	8
	Box	Folder
Notes-Tokyo Museums visitation -MSU 1972	5167	14
Class Papers
	Box	Folder
FA 661a- Sieberling, “On Romanticism” by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1950	5167	15
FA 661a - Holmes, “Siva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance” by Omoto, OSU 1951	5167	16
FA 662a- Holmes, “East is East,” by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1952	5167	17
English 641- Logan, “Fiction and Gothic Revival Architecture” by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1951	5167	18
FA 801a - Holmes “Of a Japanese Writer on Japanese Art” by Sadayoshi Omoto,OSU 1952	5167	19
FA 720 -Judkins, “Frontier of Giogiones’ Works” by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1951	5167	20
FA 805d - Fanning, “St. Frances and the Renaissance" by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1951	5167	21
FA 681- Fanning, “Benjamin West, Expatriates” by Sadayoshi Omoto, OSU 1950	5167	22
FA 38 Monograph of "Portrait of a Man" by Sadayoshi Omoto 1949	5168	62
Art 360 - Garrison, St. Francis in Italian Art by Sadayoshi Omoto 1949	5168	63
Art 501 - Abell, The Gestalt and Art Creation by Sadayoshi Omoto 1950	5168	64
Art 365B - Abell, Four Churches and One by Sadayoshi Omoto 1950	5168	65
FA701a Danes, The Loew's Ohio Movie Theater by Sadayoshi Omoto 1950	5169	1
FA 801 Seiberling, Background of the Gothic Revival by Sadayoshi Omoto 1951	5169	2
English 641 Logan, Development of Shelley's Idealistic Thoughts as Seen in Selected Poetry by Sadayoshi Omoto 1952	5169	3
Education 758 Hullfish, Big Brother is Watching You by Sadayoshi Omoto 1953	5169	4
Education 758 Hullfish, Aftermath and Process Applied by Sadayoshi Omoto 1953	5169	5
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FA 49, 61, 62 Exams Oberlin College 1949	5169	9
Exams Oberlin College 1949	5169	10
Exams, Papers and Grades Ohio State University 1950-1954	5169	11
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Electronic Resources
		Object
Paintings by Omoto (photographs) Undated		A.2014.0027-dfc7
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Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections

Sadayoshi Omoto Papers UA.17.344

Table of Contents

Summary Information

Preferred Citation

Biographical Note

Scope and Content

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Revision Description

Conditions Governing Access

Legal Status

Conditions Governing Use

Custodial History

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

Genre(s)

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s)

Collection Inventory

MSU Art Department

Professional Activities

Research for Publications

Whittredge

Exhibits

Architectural and Historic Sites Surveys

Teaching: Course Syllabi and Lecture Notes

Personal

Executive Order 9066, Evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Minadoka

Dictionary of Japanese American Artists in the United States

Leelanau Community Cultural Center (old MSU Summer Art School)

Student files - Omoto

Electronic Resources

Sadayoshi Omoto Papers
UA.17.344