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img Portrait of Tomoe Otsu in a kimono (ddr-ajah-6-926)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu, of Alameda, CA., poses in a kimono. She was born December 14, 1917. photo circa late 1920s-1930

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-926/

img Two women with parasols next to large nopal cactus (ddr-ajah-6-927)

Caption below photo: Mrs. Kora and Yoshino Otsu, both of Alameda, CA. Circa 1930s.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-927/

img Portrait of man in kimono and hakama (ddr-ajah-6-928)

Caption below photo: Enji Mitani of Alameda, CA. He was a possibly a relative of the Otsu family, also from Alameda. Circa 1930s.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-928/

img Tomoe Otsu standing on sidewalk (ddr-ajah-6-929)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu of Alameda, CA. Circa early to mid 1930s. To the left is Reiji Nakaso's grocery store, at 1629 Park Street.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-929/

img Tomoe Otsu standing on lawn (ddr-ajah-6-930)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu stands near the Pacific Nursery, which was on Pacific Avenue in Alameda, CA. Circa mid 1930s

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-930/

img Yoshino Otsu standing in garden (ddr-ajah-6-931)

Caption below photo: Yoshino Otsu, an Issei woman from Alameda, CA. Circa 1930s

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-931/

img Portrait of Tomoe Otsu in a kimono (ddr-ajah-6-932)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu, of Alameda, CA., circa 1930s

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-932/

img Two girls posing in kimonos (ddr-ajah-6-933)

Caption below photo: Chizu Kanda (left) and Tomoe Otsu of Alameda, CA., June 2, 1931

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-933/

img Album page with three images of girls in kimonos (ddr-ajah-6-934)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu (left) and friend Chizu Kanda of Alameda, CA. 1932. Written on album page: Tomo (1932) Chizu. There are two images of Tomoe Otsu and one of Chizu Kanda

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-934/

img Portrait of three women and two men (ddr-ajah-6-935)

Page titled: A Family Portrait? Page includes discussion of the connections between the individuals in the portrait.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-935/

doc Diploma from Alameda High School for Tomoye Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-936)

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doc Certificate of Life Membership in California Scholarship Federation for Tomoye Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-937)

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doc Sketch of Tomoe Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-938)

Caption below image: Pictured in Tomoe Otsu, of Alameda, CA. Born December 14, 1917. She would be 19 or 20 in 1937. Sketch is signed S. Maeda 37

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-938/

img Group sitting at a table at San Francisco YMCA (ddr-ajah-6-939)

Caption below photo: San Francisco YMCA, where Susumu Tomine (far left) went for English lessons, circa 1939-1940. He was a kibei, born in America but educated in Japan. Her returned when he was 18 years old to live in Alameda, CA.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-939/

img Susumu Tomine with guitar (ddr-ajah-6-940)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine learned to play the guitar while in a sanitarium for tuberculosis before WWII. He was from Alameda, CA. He played mostly Japanese songs. Circa early 1940s

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-940/

img Susumu Tomine sitting on lawn (ddr-ajah-6-941)

Caption below photo; Susumu Tomine of Alameda, CA. Circa early 1940s, before WWII.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-941/

img Tomoe Tomine sitting on beach (ddr-ajah-6-942)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Tomine addressed this photo to the man who would soon become her husband, Susumu in 1941. Given her clothing, likely in the summer, not long before Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Imperial Japanese. Inscription on photo: My Darling Susumu, [?]M to love, Tomo 1941

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-942/

img Wedding portrait of Tomoe Otsu and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-943)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu marries Susumu Tomine at Tanforan Race track in San Bruno, CA., on September 15, 1942, while waiting to be sent to Topaz, Utah incarceration camp during WWII. This photo, however was shot at Topaz, where they held another ceremony after the arrival there, with a borrowed wedding dress for the photo. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-943/

img Susumu Tomine with guitar (ddr-ajah-6-944)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine learned to play the guitar while in a sanitarium for tuberculosis before WWII. He played mostly Japanese songs. He was from Alameda, CA. July 24, 1942

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-944/

doc Marriage license application for Susumu Tomine and Tomoe Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-945)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine (of San Francisco, CA) and fianc?e Tomoe Otsu's (of Alameda, CA) application for a license to marry, August 5, 1942. He had contracted Tuberculosis and was living at the Hassler Health Home in Redwood City, CA. Tomoe had already evacuated to the Tanforan Assembly Center. They were hastily married in Tanforan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-945/

img Overview of Topaz camp (ddr-ajah-6-946)

Caption on photo front: Central Utah Reloc. Center Topaz, Utah 1944. Inscription on photo back in Japanese.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-946/

img Large group portrait of Mess hall staff (ddr-ajah-6-947)

Caption below photo: Mess 58 crew. Tule Lake Center, Summer 1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-947/

img Family portrait of Tomoe and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-948)

Caption below photo: L to R: Tomoe Tomine, Yoshino Otsu (Tomoe's mother), Shinya "Chris" Tomine and Susumu Tomine. Shinya is Tomoe and Susumu's son. The Tomines were still incarcerated in Tule Lake, CA for this photo. Tomoe was from Alameda, CA., and the family would settle there after the war ended. July 1945 photo

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-948/