1962 items
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Nisei girl visiting family in Japan (ddr-densho-259-280)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] visiting the Miyake relatives, when she went there for a visit alone, in the summer of 1940."
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Japanese American family in front of their home (ddr-densho-259-387)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Takeoka family in front of their home on NE Pacific Avenue, Portland, Oregon."
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Nisei brothers eating rice balls (ddr-densho-259-498)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru Yasui] & Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] eating what appears to be musabi, also sometimes called onigiri (cooked rice balls) with Mount Hood in the background."
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Nisei brothers in a garden (ddr-densho-259-467)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Roku and Shu [Yasui]--or maybe it's me--at the Third Street home."
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Family gathering in Japanese cemetery (ddr-densho-259-281)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A gathering of the Yasui family clan at the family cemetery in Nanukaichi in the summer of 1926, when the American Yasuis visited their Japanese relatives."
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Mother and children on the sidewalk (ddr-densho-259-40)
Shidzuyo Yasui with her children Tsuyoshi ("Ches") and Minoru.
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Married couple and mother in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-130)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese photograph of Ichiro Miyake ([Shidzuyo Yasui's] father) who was born on August 28, 1865; [Shidzuyo's] mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake, who was born on March 3, 1865, and Ichiro's mother, whose maiden name was Tsuna Sato, who was born on March 3, 1838."
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Japanese family in formal attire (ddr-densho-259-152)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Unknown Japanese family in Japan in formal wear. This is pictured only to show a very nice looking family, classily dressed."
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Nisei brother and sister (ddr-densho-259-463)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay and Yuka [Yasui] at the Third Street home [in Hood River, Oregon]."
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Two Japanese American families on farmland (ddr-densho-259-247)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Nikkei visitors to what must surely have been the Willow Flat farm both [Shidzuyo and Masuo Yasui] are dressed in their farm working clothes This photo shows the typical farm working clothes that [Shidzuyo]--and almost all of the Hood River valley Issei women of the time wore, when working in the orchards …
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"Kuga family from Kumamoto ken" (ddr-densho-259-490)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait in Japan, which Yuka has captioned as the 'Kuga family from Kumamoto ken.' Shown here is a stair-stepping size gradation of their 5 boys."
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Japanese American family at train station (ddr-densho-259-210)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and all eight of the Yasui children seeing [Renichi Fujimoto] off at the Hood River train depot."
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Portrait of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-478)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another family portrait of the Tomihiro family." Left to right: Senichi Tomihiro, Chiye Tomihiro, and Satoru Tomihiro.
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Family portrait of Issei and Nisei (ddr-densho-259-380)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Magoichiro and Ume Sato family, who used to live in Parkdale [Oregon] Other than Mr. Sato, the only other person I recognize is Mark Kinya Sato. I'll guess that this picture was taken in 1927-28, because the Sato's youngest son, William Katsuya, was born in 1928, and he's in this photograph."
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Two Nisei brothers in front of a fence (ddr-densho-259-180)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very cute picture of Kay and Ches [Yasui] when they were little boys. I will guess that Kay was 4 and Ches was 3 when it was taken."
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Family portrait (ddr-densho-259-552)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of the Senichi and Satoru Tomihiro family, with Chiye."
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Grandmother and grandchildren on a settee (ddr-densho-259-47)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Hisa Fujii Miyake, my maternal grandmother, with Saburo Miyake's three young children on a settee."
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Issei and Nisei men at railroad depot (ddr-densho-259-148)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], Kay and Ches, together with an unidentified Japanese man, standing in front of the old Hood River Railroad Depot I will guess that Kay was 17 here, and Ches 16."
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Japanese mother and child wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-483)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese mother and child wearing kimono.
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Portrait of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-488)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Shohei and Tei Endo family of Willow Flat, Oregon. There have been two spellings for their last name--Endo, as in the Oregon Japanese census of 1928, or Endow, as in Linda Tamura's book, The Hood River Issei. Shohei came to the U.S. in 1908, and Tei, his wife, in …
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Family at Miyajima, Japan (ddr-densho-259-294)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi, Fumi and Saburo Miyake at Miyajima, Japan, with the famous 'floating' torii [gate] in the background. This is considered to be one of the 3 most famous scenic views in Japan."
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Japanese woman and girls wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-492)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman and two girls wearing kimono, posed with a stuffed dog.
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Nisei baby smiling (ddr-densho-259-103)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay [Yasui] as a baby. This may very well have been taken at [Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasui's] first home, which was at Columbia Street in Hood River."