Obon
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Obon
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226 items
226 items
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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 …
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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
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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
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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
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Hondo dedication and entertainment; Obon; Picnics (ddr-csujad-38-585)
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_003
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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 …
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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 …
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Obon dance (ddr-densho-475-256)
Black and white photograph of women in yukata performing an obon dance.
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Obon dancers (ddr-densho-475-238)
Black and white photograph of unidentified women in yukata performing an obon dance.
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Obon dance (ddr-densho-475-257)
Black and white photograph of women in yukata performing an obon dance (related object: ddr-densho-475-238)
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Obon dancer (ddr-densho-475-229)
Black and white photograph of a woman in a yukata - possibly Yoshiko Mae (Miwa) Higaki - performing an obon dance.
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Obon dancers (ddr-densho-475-243)
Black and white photograph of unidentified women in yukata performing an obon dance.
