Family

img "Nikkei farm family scene" (ddr-densho-259-133)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A Nikkei farm family scene, taken at one of the early Yasui farms in Summit, which is slightly north and a little west of Odell, Oregon. The farm 'family' was mostly the young Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasuis Sitting back left is, I believe, Yoshizaemon Mori...I think that standing in the center is …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-133/

img Five Nisei siblings (ddr-densho-259-468)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Yuki and Michi [Yasui] at the Third Street home. There aren't many pictures of Yuki, since she died in 1922, just two months short of her fourth birthday. I think that she died of pneumonia, or maybe it was influenza."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-468/

img Multi-generational family portrait in Japan (ddr-densho-259-534)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait, presumably many of the extended Yasui clan in Nanukaichi, Japan. Prominent in the center is our uncle, Taiitsuro Yasui, and on his immediate right, his wife, Kameno Kawasaki Yasui. Our Yasui grandmother, Tsune [Tsuya?] Katayama Yasui, is on Taiitsuro's left. I think that that's Yasuo Yasui on Grandma Yasui's left--he was …

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img Passport picture of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-317)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Small family group photo of an Issei family in Dee. This is the Yasuta and Ichino Kageyama family. This may have been their passport pictures [sic] taken for their visit to Japan, which was in 1933."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-317/

img Family portrait (ddr-densho-259-375)

Portrait of unidentified Japanese family.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-375/

img Nisei child holding a sword (ddr-densho-259-384)

Portrait of an unidentified Nisei child carrying a sword.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-384/

img Two Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-376)

Two unidentified Nisei children sitting on a table.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-376/

img Nisei brother and sister (ddr-densho-259-474)

Kay and Yuka Yasui at the Yasui's home on Third Street, Hood River, Oregon.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-474/

img Japanese American family in formal attire (ddr-densho-259-3)

Formal portrait of Masuo and Shidzuyo with their baby, Kay.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-3/

img Japanese relatives with a Shinto priest (ddr-densho-259-497)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of Japanese relatives, with a Shinto priest I don't know the reason for this family gathering of representatives from both sides of our family, but I will guess that it had to do with the deification of one of our ancestors--maybe even Ichiro Miyake."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-497/

img Japanese American family in San Francisco (ddr-densho-259-388)

Portrait of the Uchida family of San Francisco, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-388/

img Nisei baby (ddr-densho-259-234)

Homer Yasui as a child.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-234/

img Issei man preparing for journey to Japan (ddr-densho-259-459)

Renichi Fujimoto at the Hood River railroad station.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-459/

img Nisei boys in flower garden (ddr-densho-259-419)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Roku and Shu [Yasui] in the backyard of our old Third Street home in Hood River."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-419/

img Issei man preparing for journey to Japan (ddr-densho-259-458)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Can [Renichi Fujimoto] and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] at the Hood River railroad station, where Chan left for Japan in late 1929 to get his wife, Matsuyo."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-458/

img Nisei children gathered in a living room (ddr-densho-259-193)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Yasui children, from Michi on down, together with the Shimbo children, in the living room of the latter. The Shimbos were family friends living in Walla Walla, WA, and we went to visit them one summer."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-193/

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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-201/

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

Portrait of an unidentified Nikkei family.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-485/

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

Unidentified Japanese woman and child.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-267/

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

Kay Yasui, born 12/12/1913.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-150/

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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-82/

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

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

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-51/

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-476/

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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-181/

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