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img 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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img Portrait of Issei man (ddr-densho-259-501)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another formal portrait of Senichi Tomihiro, again as a young man."

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img Aerial photograph of Mosier Lake, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-202)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Mosier Lake', which was on our farm property in Mosier [Oregon]."

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img Aerial photograph of Mosier Lake, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-361)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Mosier Lake', which was on our farm property in Mosier [Oregon]."

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img People at the ceremony for the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (ddr-densho-10-193)

Caption on reverse: "Old Exec. Off. Bldg. Shig Wakamatsu, Homer Yasui, Bryan Matsui, Doris Matsui, True Yasui, Pat Okura, Helen Hayashi (Mineta's aide San Jose)."

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img Two Nisei girls and a white girl in kimono (ddr-densho-259-233)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi and Yuka [Yasui] in kimono and zori (Japanese sandals) with a Caucasian girl [Bette Miller], also in kimono, between them."

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img "Young Nisei boy standing in a car behind the steering wheel" (ddr-densho-259-386)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Nisei boy standing in a car behind the steering wheel. Yuka [Yasui] has captioned this youngster as being Kay Takeoka."

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Narrator Homer Yasui

Nisei male. Born December 28, 1924, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Hood River, where father and uncles ran a store. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, attended college in Denver and Philadelphia. Eventually became a physician and returned to …

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img "Japanese girls school beach outing" (ddr-densho-259-79)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese girls school beach outing, Sumoto School, Awaji, Japan." Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Beach at Sumoto Awaji where [Shidzuyo Yasui] taught. [Shidzuyo] 2nd row. 10th from the left."

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img Nikkei family in a park (ddr-densho-259-406)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Part of the Yasui family sitting in what appears to be a park [Left to right]: Shidzuyo, holding a baby, probably me; Ches, Min[oru], & Masuo, holding a young child, most probably Shu."

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img Issei men and a woman standing by a guard rail (ddr-densho-259-214)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] with 2 other Issei men and a woman [shows] the front part of what I think was our old Studebaker."

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img Japanese women and girls on an engawa (ddr-densho-259-96)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and a group of adult women and several young girls sitting on the engawa (veranda) of a typical Japanese home."

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img Issei mother and sons on the street (ddr-densho-259-186)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui], and Min[oru Yasui] in a baby buggy, standing across the street from the First National Bank in Hood River. They are standing on the SW corner of 3rd and Oak Streets."

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img Nisei boys at the beach (ddr-densho-259-127)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[This is] the Columbia River beach at the [Yasui family's] Mosier farm, and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] & Min[oru Yasui], and the 2 Kanemasu brothers, Kazuo and Wataru, are playing around in the water in their underwear."

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img Japanese women and a stork (ddr-densho-259-113)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and a friend visiting Korakuen Park in Okayama ken [prefecture]. There is a Japanese stork (tsuru) shown in this photo also."

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img Nisei baby in yard (ddr-densho-259-469)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Shu [Yasui] at the Third Street home. In this picture, I don't think he had any more hair then then he does now."

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img University of Oregon coed (ddr-densho-259-24)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] was a [University of Oregon] coed here, standing on the steps of what may have been her dormitory, Susan Campbell Hall."

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img Loving cup award being presented (ddr-densho-259-342)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] received a loving cup [the 'Silver Loving Cup' award] presented by the Hood River Japanese community in appreciation for services rendered."

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img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-99)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the second row, third from the left.

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img 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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img "Portrait of a middle-aged Japanese man" (ddr-densho-259-165)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of a middle-aged Japanese man wearing glasses and a striped tie."

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img Issei men eating apples (ddr-densho-259-81)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Dad and 2 Japanese friends eating apples in front of an apple tree."

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img Issei man and children at train station (ddr-densho-259-195)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru], Michi, Roku, Shu, Homer & Yuka standing with Chan [Renichi Fujimoto] at the Hood River train depot. This was probably taken in the winter of 1929, when Chan went back to Japan to bring Obasan [Matsuyo Fujimoto] home to Hood River."

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img "Third Yasui Brothers Store under construction" (ddr-densho-259-283)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Texaco service station being built on the corner of First and Oak Streets in Hood River, Oregon Third Yasui Brothers Store under construction."

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img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono playing the koto (ddr-densho-259-65)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

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