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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-241)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-241/

img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-240)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-240/

img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-243)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-243/

av Hondo dedication and entertainment; Obon; Picnics (ddr-csujad-38-586)

A digest of the film footage, csudh_nao_0764 Film footage of activities held at Gardena Buddhist Church, Gardena, California. Included are performances, funerals, carnivals, hanamatsuri events, bon dance, picnics, music and play performances. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_06_01_004

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-586/

av Hondo dedication and entertainment; Obon; Picnics (ddr-csujad-38-584)

A digest of the film footage, csudh_nao_0764: activities held at Gardena Buddhist Church, Gardena, California. Included are performances, funerals, carnivals, hanamatsuri events, bon dance, picnics, music and play performances. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_06_01_002

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-584/

doc Religious life in the Gila community (ddr-csujad-26-30)

Observations and descriptions of Buddhist, Christian, and Shinto practices by incarcerees including the establishment of Buddhist Church, funeral arrangements and ceremony, Bon festival, and events taking place in and around the churches established at Gila River. Compiled as a portion of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). See this object in the California State …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-30/

av Hondo dedication and entertainment; Obon; Picnics (ddr-csujad-38-585)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-585/

av Hondo dedication and entertainment; Obon; Picnics (ddr-csujad-38-583)

Film footage of activities held at Gardena Buddhist Church, Gardena, California. Included are performances, funerals, carnivals, hanamatsuri events, bon dance, picnics, music and play performances. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_06_01_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-583/

doc Letter from Makoto Okine to Mr. Okine, June 28, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-82)

A letter from Makoto Okine in Lecce, Italy to his father, Seiichi Okine, in the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. It is mailed via New York by the US Army Postal Service. In the letter, Makoto assumes that not many people participate in the bonodori event in the camp this time because many of the young …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-82/

img Obon, Rohwer, Arkansas (ddr-csujad-5-339)

Photographed are Akiko An and Kiku Tanimoto, Ayame May Okine, and Dorothy Ai Okine. It is taken during the obon event in the Rohwer incarceration camp. The handwritten notes on the backside read: Obon, Rohwer, Arkansas. A photograph from "Dorothy Ai Aoki photo album" (csudh_oki_0300), page 11. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-339/

img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-233)

Pictured is the lead dancer.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-233/

img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-237)

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-234)

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-238)

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-239)

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-235)

Third from left: Sue Ogata.

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-232)

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img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-236)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-236/

img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-242)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-242/

img Prewar Bon Odori Festival (ddr-sbbt-6-41)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-6-41/

img Women perform at Bon Odori (ddr-sbbt-6-42)

Women in kimonos perform at Bon Odori outside of the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple while a crowd looks on.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-6-42/

doc The Nisei Weekender, Vol. 1, No. 29 (July 11, 1946) (ddr-densho-358-8)

Selected article titles: "Presidential Review: 442nd to March for Truman in Washington, July 15th" (p.1), "General Lauds 442nd Team at Camp Kilmer Reception" (p.1), "O-bon Services Honor War Dead" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-358-8/