Family

img Four Nisei brothers with bozu haircuts (ddr-densho-259-83)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "It looks like Kay, Ches and Min [Yasui]--and Roku in front, sitting on the ground--just had had bozu haircuts. A 'bozu' is the familiar term for Bonsan, a Japanese Buddhist priest, who...always had a shaven or closely cropped head. For many years, Dad [Masuo Yasui] used to cut his boys' hair. He …

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img Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-201)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Yasui children standing on the Hood River courthouse lawn It shows the band-stand in which the Knights of Pythias Band occasionalyl gave concerts in the summertime. It also shows the 12 pounder Napoleon smoothbore cannon of American Civil War vintage."

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img Portrait of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-485)

Portrait of an unidentified Nikkei family.

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img Japanese woman and child in kimono (ddr-densho-259-267)

Unidentified Japanese woman and child.

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img Nisei baby in wicker chair (ddr-densho-259-150)

Kay Yasui, born 12/12/1913.

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img Two Nisei brothers in front of a fence (ddr-densho-259-82)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very cute picture of Kay and Ches [Yasui] when they were little boys. I will guess that Kay was 4 and Ches was 3 when it was taken."

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img Father and four children (ddr-densho-259-51)

Kay, Min, Masuo, either Yuki or Michi, and Ches (Tsuyoshi) Yasui.

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img Nisei brother and sisters (ddr-densho-259-476)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Michi and Yuka [Yasui], Third Street home In this photo, the white patches in front of Kay's ears on both sides are bandages. Earlier that summer, in June, 1930, he had gone to some sort of a military camp. It was called C.M.T.C., Camp Hurlburt, Vancouver Barracks, Washington...while there Kay developed …

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img "Family portrait of a young Japanese family" (ddr-densho-259-181)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of a young Japanese family." Fumi and Saburo Miyake, the brother and sister-in-law of Shidzuyo Miyake, and their daughter, Midori Miyake.

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img Girl standing in front of trees (ddr-densho-259-6)

Yuka Yasui standing in front of a birch tree in her family's backyard in Hood River, Oregon.

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img Family portrait of Issei and Nisei (ddr-densho-259-371)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of the Karasawa family. Some time in the late 19 teens, the Karasawa family moved to Hood River, where they opened a laundry, on Oak Street, I think. They were one of the few Japanese families who lived permanently in town, although there had been other sojourners."

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img Nikkei children in Japan (ddr-densho-259-270)

The Karasawa family with kites in Japan, including Rin Karasawa (center) and Jun Karasawa far right).

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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 Nisei boy outside garage (ddr-densho-259-515)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Me, at around age 10-11, standing on the east side of our old garage In the background is a huge pule of cut up apple wood, which we three young boys--Roku, Shu & me--had to load onto wheelbarrows, and trundle down a steep concrete steps to the basement, to be later burned …

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img Portrait of Japanese family in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-495)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Formal portrait of the Saburo and Fumi Miyake Midori (Saburo & Fumi's firstborn child), Goro, Shiro, Saburo, and Saburo/[Shidzuyo Yasui]'s mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake."

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img Nisei boy in hat and coat (ddr-densho-259-417)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Shu, in front of our old Third Street home, Hood River, [Oregon]. This is a very cute picture and it's also a very characteristic pose when he was a shy little boy."

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img Three Nisei children on a farm (ddr-densho-259-73)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay & Min, and part of Ches [Yasui] as young children."

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img Formal portrait of eight Japanese men in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-54)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo] and [Shinataro] Yasui posing with 6 young Japanese men."

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img Four children lined up outside (ddr-densho-259-10)

Three brothers and a girl lined up in ascending order in front of the Yasui home in Hood River, Oregon.

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img Two young Nisei women (ddr-densho-259-244)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Yoshiko Uchida & sister."

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img Nisei brother and sister (ddr-densho-259-462)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay and Yuka [Yasui] at the Third Street home [in Hood River, Oregon]."

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img Issei mother and baby daughter (ddr-densho-259-194)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] holding Yuka [Yasui] as a baby in her arms, taken on the Hood River courthouse lawn on April 24, 1927, presumably by Kay [Yasui]."

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img Portrait of a lawyer and his wife from Hood River (ddr-densho-259-50)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ernest Chandler Smith and his wife Alice. E.C. Smith was an attorney, and he did all of our legal work, as he did for many other Hood River Issei Smith had verbally--not legally--defended Dad when he was in an internment camp; and he spoke sympathetically about the plight of the Nikkei who …

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