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117 items
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Two Issei men and three white women (ddr-densho-259-39)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] featured with several Caucasian women. I don't know what this represents and I don't know the women."
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Japanese family visiting a farm (ddr-densho-259-261)
Unidentified visitors to the Yasui family's farm in Willow Flat, Oregon.
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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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Ten Issei men (ddr-densho-259-327)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "10 Issei men, all in western attire. Location not identified, but there is a handwritten date of 1907 at the top. Around then, Masuo [Yasui] was living in Portland at either the Japanese Methodist Mission or at the home of the Caucasian attorney, for whom he worked as a houseboy."
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Three young Japanese men in traditional clothing (ddr-densho-259-56)
Masuo Yasui and friends dressed in traditional Japanese clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: Some are "wearing yukata (summer kimono) and on Masuo, something like a haori (short, semi-formal Japanese coat). All are wearing what look like waraji (rice straw sandals), but that doesn't seem quite right because...waraji were only used for rough wear or if the …
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Two Issei men sitting near Oak trees (ddr-densho-259-38)
Two Issei men sitting on a lawn. Caption by Homer Yasui: "I would like to guess that it was taken somewhere near Oak Grove [Oregon] because of the characteristic oak trees."
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Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-257)
Two unidentified Japanese American men in an apple orchard, possibly in Willow Flat, Oregon. The man on the left is probably Masuo Yasui.
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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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Japanese visitors at a fruit packing house (ddr-densho-259-255)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a group of 3 Japanese visitors and a young Japanese girl [Masuo] was showing the visitors what our fruit sorting conveyor belt looked like in the packing house at Willow Flat."
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Issei man in kimono (ddr-densho-259-140)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of [Masuo Yasui] dressed in a kimono, with a long, knee length dark over-kimono, but it wasn't a montsuki, because there are no crests. He's wearing a straw boater. I think that this picture must have been taken in Japan when our family went there for a 2-1/2 month visit in …
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Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-260)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a young Japanese man wearing a striped suit and holding an apple in each hand. I don't know who this man was."
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Board of Directors of the Apple Growers Association (ddr-densho-259-29)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "I don't recognize any of the 14 Caucasian men in this group picture with [Masuo Yasui], but I suspect that they were the Board of Directors of the Apple Growers Association."
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Portrait of an Issei man in Western clothing (ddr-densho-259-57)
Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Masuo Yasui came to the United States alone, departing from Yokohama, Japan on the Ryojun Maru, at the age of 16-1/2 years. He arrived in Seattle on June 4, 1903."
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Issei men and white women in a wooded bower (ddr-densho-259-156)
Masuo Yasui, an unidentified Issei man, and four unidentified white women sitting in a wooded area.
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Issei parents and four children (ddr-densho-259-52)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is [Shidzuyo and Masuo Yasui] with Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], and [either] Yuki [or] Michi."
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Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-291)
Wedding portrait captioned "Mr. and Mrs. Yasui." However, it does not appear to be a portrait of Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasui.
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Formal portrait of eight Japanese men in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-190)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of 8 Japanese men, of whom [Masuo Yasui] is sitting front left; and seated to his left, is his father Shinataro Yasui this picture must have been taken in 1926 when the Yasui family visited Japan. The other men may have been Masuo's schoolmates and friends."
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Japanese American family in formal attire (ddr-densho-259-3)
Formal portrait of Masuo and Shidzuyo with their baby, Kay.
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Yasui Brothers store in Hood River (ddr-densho-259-160)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Daiichi Takeoka and Keisuke Ito of Portland, [Masuo Yasui], [Shidzuyo Yasui] and Senichi Tomihiro standing in front of the main door to the second Yasui Brothers store in Hood River."
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Issei men in Rose Festival attire (ddr-densho-259-411)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Masuo Yasui and Katsusaburo Tamura, in their Rose Festival clothing, standing in front of the Japanese Methodist Mission in Portland."
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Men near a bridge (ddr-densho-259-20)
Four Japanese American men near a bridge, two of whom are Daiichi Takeoka and Masuo Yasui.
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Issei and Nisei family (ddr-densho-259-200)
Portrait of the Yasui family on the courthouse lawn in Hood River, Oregon. Shidzuyo Yasui, Yuka Yasui, Masuo Yasui, and Renichi Fujimoto are in the back row. Homer, Roku, Shu, Michi, Minoru, and Ches (Tsuyoshi) Yasui are in the front row.
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Japanese American extended family (ddr-densho-259-105)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group picture of the Hood River Yasui family and relatives In the first row, George Katayama is seated on a tricycle Kay [Yasui] is seated on the toy dog, also in the first row. In the second row, left to right, is Shizuyo Katayama; Ches [Yasui] on the lap of Shintaro Yasui …