. >> delphine hirasuna is the author of the "art of gaman," a book that features arts and crafts from the japanese american internment camps during world war ii. she showed us the items on display at the renwick gallery. her parents were interned at one of the camps where all ethnic japanese on the west coast were transferred shortly after the bombing of pearl harbor. >> well, the way the whole project started was shortly after my mother died. i was going through the garage and found this old dusty wooden books, and i looked in there, and there was this bird pin and there was some other trinkets. my dad served in the 442nd in italy, so he had a lot of little trinkets that he brought back from italy. given what was in the box i saw that it must have been made in camp, in the internment camps that the japanese-americans were put in during world war tie. but i liked the pin. i started wearing it. and a friend of mine, a designer who did my book, kit heinrichs saw me wearing it one day and he said, interesting pin you have on. i said, yeah, i think it was made in camp. and he said, i wond