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Mitani Family

Takejiro Mitani arrived in Vancouver in 1906

Okano Family

Masaburo and Tane Okano arrived in Canada in 1905 but Tane's parents Shikamatsu and Take Okano arrived first in 1895

I've been the owner of this collection for 30 years, but the collection is much older than that. My grandfather started it, and my father and his brother inherited it. They added a lot of brilliant pieces to the collection, including some lyrical abstractionist paintings that I adore. My uncle had no children, so both he and my father left their shares of the collection to me.