ddr-densho-259 — Yasui Family Collection — Objects

img Nisei boy on a farm (ddr-densho-259-76)

Kay Yasui as a boy.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-76/

img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-77)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Mom [Shidzuyo Yasui] - Last Row 2nd from Left. Sumoto, Awaji where she taught 1912." Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo] taught home economics there."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-77/

img "Hood River Japanese Hall" (ddr-densho-259-78)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large photo of a great many if not the majority, of the Japanese who lived in Hood River [Oregon] valley. This picture was taken in front of the Hood River Japanese Community Hall, which was built in 1926-27."

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img "Japanese girls school beach outing" (ddr-densho-259-79)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese girls school beach outing, Sumoto School, Awaji, Japan." Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Beach at Sumoto Awaji where [Shidzuyo Yasui] taught. [Shidzuyo] 2nd row. 10th from the left."

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img Strawberry fields (ddr-densho-259-80)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very large acreage of strawberries on our Willow Flat farm At one time or another, almost all of the land on the 'home 60' (sixty acres) had been planted in strawberries, but of course not at the same time."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-80/

img Issei men eating apples (ddr-densho-259-81)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Dad and 2 Japanese friends eating apples in front of an apple tree."

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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."

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

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 Japanese women wearing montsuki (ddr-densho-259-84)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This picture of an unknown Japanese woman and a younger, equally unknown Japanese woman [shows] the formal montsuki--which is an over-garment which has the family crest placed on it in 5 defined places. The younger woman is wearing what looks like a fancy kapogi--but it looks to good to be just a …

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img Graduating girls' class in Japan (ddr-densho-259-85)

Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the third row, second from the right. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Maybe at the school in Tsuyama, Okayama-ken, Japan, where [Shidzuyo] had also taught for a short time in 1910. This also looks like a girls' graduating class, but [Shidzuyo] and the other teachers are dressed differently."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-85/

img Japanese women in traditional attire (ddr-densho-259-86)

Two unidentified Japanese women.

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img Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-87)

Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the last row on the left. Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo] and another woman standing in the back, are wearing formal black clothing bearing crests of some sort. The mon (crest) that [Shidzuyo] is wearing is too small to be identified. The Miyake [Shidzuyo's maiden name] family crest was the Chinese …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-87/

img Woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-88)

Unidentified Japanese woman wearing a kimono.

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img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-89)

Probably the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the third row, third from the right.

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img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-90)

A group picture from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the top row, fourth from the right.

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img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-91)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Series of 3 photographs of [Shidzuyo Yasui] and her colleagues in Japan."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-91/

img Class at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-92)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group photo of what I will guess was [Shidzuyo Yasui's] class in Home Economics. I don't know where in Japan this was taken, but it doesn't look like the Sumoto School grounds." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-92/

img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-93)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] in the middle with maybe some of her teaching colleagues in Japan."

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img Japanese woman wearing a kimono (ddr-densho-259-94)

Unidentified Japanese woman wearing a kimono.

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img Japanese woman wearing a kimono (ddr-densho-259-95)

Unidentified Japanese woman wearing a kimono.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-95/

img Japanese women and girls on an engawa (ddr-densho-259-96)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and a group of adult women and several young girls sitting on the engawa (veranda) of a typical Japanese home."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-96/

img Four Nikkei children (ddr-densho-259-97)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ches [Yasui] at around the age of 4. He is wearing a white hachimaki (headband) and has his right eye squinted in a very typical pose. Kay and two other little Nikkei kids are shown."

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img Japanese women on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-98)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-98/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-99)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the second row, third from the left.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-99/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-100)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-100/

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