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420 items
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Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-114)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Midori Miyake taken in Japan in kimono. She is our first cousin, who was born in Hood River, Oregon (actually, Pine Grove, on our family farm), where her father Saburo Miyake, worked the orchard and the berry field."
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Nisei girls at the Japanese Community Hall (ddr-densho-259-175)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "20 or so Nisei girls gathered along the south side of the Dee Japanese Community Hall this may represent a Japanese language school, because Mrs. Haru Tsuji, who was a Japanese language teacher, is standing in the background."
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Japanese man and woman reading in a garden (ddr-densho-259-238)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese print, showing a Japanese man and a Japanese woman wearing rather tall geta (Japanese wooden clogs). Both of them seem to be reading from a piece of white paper. On their left is a small Japanese garden."
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Nisei boys at Japanese language school (ddr-densho-259-187)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A group of the young Dee Nisei boys pictured with [Japanese language teacher] Haru Tsuji. Since Toru Hasegawa is also in this picture, maybe some of the Oak Grove Nisei attended the language school at the Dee Community Hall."
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"Girls from Dee" (ddr-densho-259-272)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Five Nisei girls who lived in Dee [Oregon]. This picture was taken on the south side of the old Dee Japanese Community Hall. I can identify Mikie Kageyama and Hannah Kinoshita but I don't recognize the other three."
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Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-87)
Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the last row on the left. Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo] and another woman standing in the back, are wearing formal black clothing bearing crests of some sort. The mon (crest) that [Shidzuyo] is wearing is too small to be identified. The Miyake [Shidzuyo's maiden name] family crest was the Chinese …
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Family on an engawa in Japan (ddr-densho-259-120)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Rare photo of [Matsuyo and Renichi Fujimoto] sitting on a veranda (engawa) in Japan, with three young kids and an elderly Japanese couple [Renichi's] adoptive mother, Haru Yasui Fujimoto, was born on July 24, 1848; and his adoptive father, Chojiro Fujimoto, was born on September 5, 1844, in Aono. Chojiro's father was …
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Issei men alongside a touring car (ddr-densho-259-192)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and another man standing alongside a touring car. The interesting thing about this picture is that the sign on the wall of the building says, 'E.C. Smith Motor Co.' I doubt that this was a business run by Ernest C. Smith, [Masuo]'s old friend. but who knows? E.C. Smith's business …
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Four men in a field (ddr-densho-259-23)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Eiikichi Kusachi, Masuo Yasui, John Young and Tadao Sato standing in a field, with a couple of low, bare hills in the background. Kusachi was a pioneer Issei who lived in Dee, and he was always very prominent in the HR [Hood River] Nipponjin community affairs...John Young sold insurance in Hood River, …
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Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-448)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "An early Hood River parade, showing the [Hood River] Japanese marching up Oak Street in medieval costumes, probably during the Fourth of July. According to Ruth Guppy, this parade was held on July 4, 1914, following a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado at Coe's Spring...[Masuo Yasui] can be seen in …
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Nisei children drinking milk (ddr-densho-259-426)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi, Roku and Shu [Yasui], sucking on what appear to be milk bottles taken in front of the dilapidated wooden storage shed attached to our old home on Third Street. We always used to call that side room the hisashi. That old hisashi was always a scary place to me, because it …
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"Hood River Japanese community welcoming dignitaries" (ddr-densho-259-299)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Hood River Japanese community welcoming dignitaries." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A very large gathering of Nikkei in front of the Hood River Japanese Community Hall I will guess that the couple in the center was the Japanese ambassador to the United States, Debuchi Kakka and Mrs. Debuchi. According to Corky Kawasaki, Kakka …
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Nikkei family seated in living room (ddr-densho-259-393)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Katsusaburo and Michiko Tamura family portrait, taken in their home located jear the old Emory (?) sawmill east of Odell, [Oregon]. Seated, [left to right]: Michiko (mother), Alice, unidentified Issei man, George & Oscar. Standing, [left to right]: Katsusaburo (father) & Harry."
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Issei men at a funeral (ddr-densho-259-340)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of 50 or more well dressed Issei men, many of whom appear to be wearing black armbands, so this may have been a post-funeral scene. This gathering may have been to mourn the death of the Emperor Meiji."
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"Hood River Japanese Hall" (ddr-densho-259-78)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large photo of a great many if not the majority, of the Japanese who lived in Hood River [Oregon] valley. This picture was taken in front of the Hood River Japanese Community Hall, which was built in 1926-27."
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"Portrait of a Nikkei family" (ddr-densho-259-391)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of a Nikkei family. This was the 'George' (Y)Eitaro and Hama (Sato) Yamaki family, first of Oak Grove, then of Pine Grove, Oregon. Front, [left to right]: Hama, Shigenobu, Eitaro. Back, [left to right]: William, Eiko, Mitsuko, Hideo Sato."
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"Issei in quasi-feudal Japanese costumes" (ddr-densho-259-453)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A group of Hood River Issei in quasi-feudal Japanese costumes. I think that this picture was taken at our Mosier farm because of the hills in the background I suspect that this was another undokai [field day/sports day]."
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Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-259-365)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "I think that this gathering took place in front of what was then called the Centenary Wilbur Methodist Church, in Portland I suspect that this was a YPCC--Young People's Christian Conference--because many of the Nisei are wearing identification badges."
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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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School portrait of a boy in Japan (ddr-densho-259-58)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a schoolboy portrait of [Masuo Yasui] in Japan around [age] 14 or 15. He attended Kojokwan High School, which was located in Nishi (west) Ibara [He] didn't graduate from high school because he emigrated to the United States before then. At best, he may have been the equivalent of an …
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Family portrait of Issei and Nisei (ddr-densho-259-378)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Yasui family of Mosier, showing father, mother, two young girls and a young boy. The bigger girl is Kazuko and the other one is Shizue. The boy is Takaaki 'Frank.' Our families are not related, although Tokujiro and his wife Masashi--and in fact, all of the Yasuis that I've …
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Japanese American Families in Hood River, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-48)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Taken in Hood River, on the southwest corner of Second Street and Oak Street. The sign on the window of the corner shop says, 'Slocums Book Store', and further back there is an overhead sign that says, 'Drugs'. The latter was Keir's Drug Store...The picture shows...[Shidzuyo Yasui], [Masuo Yasui], Senichi Tomihiro, Daiichi …
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Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference (ddr-densho-259-164)
Caption in Japanese at bottom of photograph: "Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large print gathering of some Hood River Issei , together with a large number of out-of-town Issei women in front of the Hood River Community Hall."
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Family portrait in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-134)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Part of the Miyake family in Japan, before [Shidzuyo] left to start teaching school. Pictured are Grandma Hisa Fujii Miyake, Grandpa Ichiro Miyake, Great Grandma Tsuno Sato Miyake, Uncle Saburo and Mom [Shidzuyo]. There's a little girl in this picture, but she's unidentified."
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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."