Pre-World War II

img Family picture in Japan (ddr-densho-259-535)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family picture of Saburo and Fumi Miyake with Daiichi Takeoka, of Portland, Oregon, in this group. Our maternal grandmother, Hisa Fujii Miyakie [Miyake] is in the center Presumably this photo was taken in their family home."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-535/

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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-113/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-134/

img Portrait of Japanese and white men and women in Japan (ddr-densho-259-149)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Very large portrait taken in Japan, which includes [Shidzuyo Yasui] It's intriguing because the group--which I suspect consists of teachers--are gathered in front of a large, two story, western-style wooden building wiith shutters. But of more interest are two Caucasian couples, and a dozen or so Japanese men." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-149/

img Japanese woman in kapogi (ddr-densho-259-167)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo portrait of [Shidzuyo Yasui] in kimono, holding a budding twig in her right hand, and wearing what looks like a fancy kapogi (sort of a Japanese apron, but much nicer). This surely was taken in Japan before she emigrated to America."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-167/

img Portrait of a young man in Japan (ddr-densho-259-60)

Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing, taken in Japan, probably soon before his emigration to the United States.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-60/

img "Family portrait of a Japanese family in Japan" (ddr-densho-259-381)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of a Japanese family in Japan. All are wearing Japanese clothing and some of them are wearing montsuki. Sometimes this jacket is also called a haori."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-381/

img Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-168)

Unidentified Japanese woman wearing a kimono.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-168/

img Japanese girl in kimono (ddr-densho-259-185)

Midori Miyake as a child in Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-185/

img Portrait of women and children in Japan (ddr-densho-259-117)

Portrait of Shidzuyo Miyake with unknown woman and children in traditional Japanese attire.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-117/

img Portrait of two young men in Japan (ddr-densho-259-61)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This Japanese picture of [Masuo Yasui] and a friend shows both of them in Western gear. My guess is that both of these young boys were getting ready to emigrate to the U.S., but I don't know who his buddy was."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-61/

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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-79/

img Teacher and students on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-126)

Shidzuyo Yasui (front row, second from left) with female students from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-126/

img Boy wearing gi in Japan (ddr-densho-259-8)

Roku Yasui wearing Nihon gi in Nanukaichi, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-8/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-294/

img Graduating girls' class in Japan (ddr-densho-259-85)

Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the third row, second from the right. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Maybe at the school in Tsuyama, Okayama-ken, Japan, where [Shidzuyo] had also taught for a short time in 1910. This also looks like a girls' graduating class, but [Shidzuyo] and the other teachers are dressed differently."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-85/

img Group of women and girls in Japan (ddr-densho-259-70)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Hundreds of young Japanese girls and women, together with a few men, posed in front of what appears to be a levee. This may represent a school for females in Japan. Our Mom [Shidzuyo Yasui] is seated in the 4th row, 5th from right. Location, occasion and date unknown, but before Mom …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-70/

img Nisei girl visiting family in Japan (ddr-densho-259-289)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui]'s visit to Japan in the summer of 1940 Front, [left to right]: Yasuo, Michi, Kameno, Taiitsuro. Back, [left to right]: Tokiko, Norie (Yasuo's wife), Hiroshi, Sachiko."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-289/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-280/

img Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-118)

Portrait of unidentified Japanese women in kimono.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-118/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-125)

Shidzuyo Yasui (front row, center) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-125/

img Two Japanese women posed with a dog (ddr-densho-259-107)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another picture of [Shidzuyo Yasui] with another young Japanese woman and an obvious studio prop dog."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-107/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-281/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-130/

img Japanese women and child with parasols (ddr-densho-259-106)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another picture of [Shidzuyo Yasui], this time holding a parasol."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-106/

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