ddr-ajah-3 — Alameda Japanese American History Project: Buddhist Temple of Alameda Collection — Objects

img Ten girls in swim suits sitting in a row (ddr-ajah-3-335)

Caption below photo: Camping with the Komiyo Club, 1933 Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA

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img Group of young women at a picnic (ddr-ajah-3-336)

Caption below photo: Nisei girls from Alameda. CA, picnicking 1933

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doc Scrapbook page with photo of Koniyo Club members (ddr-ajah-3-337)

Caption below page: Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA 1933. Names of women identified

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doc Document with photos and clippings related to Komiyo Club (ddr-ajah-3-338)

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img Man with pole vault pole (ddr-ajah-3-339)

Caption below photo: Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., Templars pole vaulter, location unknown. The Templars were an early sports team from the temple. Circa 1910-1030s

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img Group of children posing outside Temple (ddr-ajah-3-340)

Caption below photo: Sunday School youth at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA

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img Large group at banquet (ddr-ajah-3-341)

Caption above photo: Dinner to commemorate the Gomonshu's February 7, 1952 visit to the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Individuals identified on photo front

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img Class picture in front of Temple (ddr-ajah-3-342)

Caption below photo: Rev. Giko Abiko and a Sunday School youth class at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. He served from 1954-1960

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img Group of students on Temple stage (ddr-ajah-3-343)

Caption below photo: Japanese language school children, Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA, Spring 1955

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img Four women serving drinks (ddr-ajah-3-344)

Caption below photo: Fujinkai women at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. L to R: Kimiko Nakayama Sato of Alameda, CA., Sets Yamashita, Mrs. Nakano, Patty Nakano. Fall 1955

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-3-344/

img Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-345)

Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …

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img Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-346)

Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …

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img Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-347)

Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …

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img Group of women in aprons and bonnets bowing (ddr-ajah-3-348)

Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …

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img Group of girls with teacher (ddr-ajah-3-349)

Caption below photo: BTOA Sunday School Class, Tomoe Tomine teach August 1937

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doc Copy of clipping with photo from The Japanese American News titled "Alameda's Frolicking Fujin" (ddr-ajah-3-350)

Caption below clipping: Young Nisei Women prepare for the Obon Festival and dance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Photo courtesy the Nichibei Shinbun July 23, 1936

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av Home movie footage of the wedding of Ron Tsuchiya and Dorienne Ouye (ddr-ajah-3-351)

Home movie footage of the wedding of Alameda Buddhist Temple member Ron Tsuchiya and Dorienne Ouye of Oakland, California. The wedding took place at a church in Berkeley, California.

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av Interview with Mary M. Hirai (tape 1, side 1) (ddr-ajah-3-352)

Mary M. Hirai was born on November 19, 1900. She left Japan as a baby and moved to Hawaii with her parents, then they went to San Jose, California, when Mrs. Hirai was aged five. Her father worked in a cannery and her grandmother cooked in Toyokan, a Japanese hotel.

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av Interview with Mary M. Hirai (tape 1, side 2) (ddr-ajah-3-353)

Mary M. Hirai was born on November 19, 1900. She left Japan as a baby and moved to Hawaii with her parents, then they went to San Jose, California, when Mrs. Hirai was aged five. Her father worked in a cannery and her grandmother cooked in Toyokan, a Japanese hotel.

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av Interview with Shigeko Iwaihara Koga (ddr-ajah-3-354)

Shigeko Iwaihara Koga was born March 23, 1911. She was a member of the Alameda Buddhist Temple. In 1916, Mrs. Koga returned to Japan and enrolled in grade school. The family returned to Alameda, California, in 1918 where Mrs. Koga atended Porter Elementary School. She was incarcerated at the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Mrs. Koga became …

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img Ten girls in kimonos (ddr-ajah-3-355)

Caption below photo: Young Nisei girls pose at the Buddhist Temples of Alameda, CA, for an unknown event. September 22, 1935

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doc Buddhist Churches of American, Vol. 1, 75 year History 1899-1974 (ddr-ajah-3-356)

Front cover and seven pages from book about Buddhist Temples in America

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img Group of Issei and Nisei men and women (ddr-ajah-3-357)

Caption below photo: Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Rev Koryu Iino with Isseis and also young Nisei women. 1920-1928

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