ddr-densho-259 — Yasui Family Collection — Objects

img Japanese women on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-101)

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-259-101/

img Japanese American family at home (ddr-densho-259-102)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Portland Maeda family, showing Mrs. Yoshiko Maeda, France, Milton & Roy in their home, when the children were very young."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-102/

img Nisei baby smiling (ddr-densho-259-103)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay [Yasui] as a baby. This may very well have been taken at [Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasui's] first home, which was at Columbia Street in Hood River."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-103/

img Two Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-104)

Shidzuyo Yasui (right) with an unidentified woman in Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-104/

img Japanese American extended family (ddr-densho-259-105)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group picture of the Hood River Yasui family and relatives In the first row, George Katayama is seated on a tricycle Kay [Yasui] is seated on the toy dog, also in the first row. In the second row, left to right, is Shizuyo Katayama; Ches [Yasui] on the lap of Shintaro Yasui …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-105/

img Japanese women and child with parasols (ddr-densho-259-106)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another picture of [Shidzuyo Yasui], this time holding a parasol."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-106/

img Two Japanese women posed with a dog (ddr-densho-259-107)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another picture of [Shidzuyo Yasui] with another young Japanese woman and an obvious studio prop dog."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-107/

img Japanese girls in class picture (ddr-densho-259-108)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], front row, 2nd from right." Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this posed group picture or [sic] 19 young Japanese women of whom [Shidzuyo Yasui] is one, I suspect that this must have been a class picture. She doesn't look that much older than the rest of them."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-108/

img Japanese class picture (ddr-densho-259-109)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group picture of young Japanese women of which [Shidzuyo Yasui] is one. This may have been a class picture too, although in this case, there are a couple of young men standing in the top row." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the front row, second from the right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-109/

img Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-110)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "St. Marks Church in Hood River, showing [Masuo Yasui], several Issei men, a Caucasian minister, and remarkably, a Japanese minister not Isaac Inouye. St. Marks was either a Catholic or Episcopalian church--or maybe it was a Lutheran church. In any event, the two clerics are wearing their collars backwards, as Catholic and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-110/

img Teacher and students in Japan (ddr-densho-259-111)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this posed group photo, [Shidzuyo Yasui] looks quite a bit older than a bunch of young girls, so this may have been a class of her students."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-111/

img Unidentified Japanese girl (ddr-densho-259-112)

Portrait of an unidentified Japanese girl. This picture appears to be cut out of a larger photograph.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-112/

img Japanese women and a stork (ddr-densho-259-113)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and a friend visiting Korakuen Park in Okayama ken [prefecture]. There is a Japanese stork (tsuru) shown in this photo also."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-113/

img Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-114)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Midori Miyake taken in Japan in kimono. She is our first cousin, who was born in Hood River, Oregon (actually, Pine Grove, on our family farm), where her father Saburo Miyake, worked the orchard and the berry field."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-114/

img Japanese schoolgirls in kimono (ddr-densho-259-115)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] as a schoolgirl, with two friends."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-115/

img Japanese women playing battledore (ddr-densho-259-116)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this picture, [Shidzuyo Yasui] seems to be refereeing a battledore match between two young women. This game, which resembles badminton in a very sedate and genteel way, probably isn't played in Japan anymore, but it was in her day. The opponents bat a hard, round, marble-like thing, to which is attached …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-116/

img Portrait of women and children in Japan (ddr-densho-259-117)

Portrait of Shidzuyo Miyake with unknown woman and children in traditional Japanese attire.

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img Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-118)

Portrait of unidentified Japanese women in kimono.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-118/

img Japanese women and girls in kimono (ddr-densho-259-119)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is one representative view [of Shidzuyo Yasui], although I have no idea who the people are that she's pictured with. Two young girls in kimono flank her, and a couple of older women stand behind her." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-119/

img Family on an engawa in Japan (ddr-densho-259-120)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Rare photo of [Matsuyo and Renichi Fujimoto] sitting on a veranda (engawa) in Japan, with three young kids and an elderly Japanese couple [Renichi's] adoptive mother, Haru Yasui Fujimoto, was born on July 24, 1848; and his adoptive father, Chojiro Fujimoto, was born on September 5, 1844, in Aono. Chojiro's father was …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-120/

img Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-121)

Picture of Shidzuyo Yasui with unknown Japanese young women. Shizuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-121/

img Japanese family on a ship to America (ddr-densho-259-122)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Picture of [Renichi Fujimoto] and [Matsuyo Fujimoto] and another Japanese man, standing on the deck of a ship. Since Obasan is wearing a kimono, this must have been taken when she left for American with [Renichi, her husband]. They arrived in Seattle on March 10, 1931."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-122/

img Girls by the Japanese seaside (ddr-densho-259-123)

Shidzuyo Yasui (standing at the top of the photograph) with a group of young women, probably her students, at the seaside on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-123/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-124)

Shidzuyo Yasui (second row, second from right) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. The bearded man in the back row is the school principal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-124/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-125)

Shidzuyo Yasui (front row, center) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-125/

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