Obon Festival- Odori folk dance
PARTNER
Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-one-1-225 (ONLC 3048)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Black and white photographic negative of Obon dancers in large circle around podium holding "uchiwa" (fan) above their heads. Large crowd watches on from left side of image. Outer circle of Obon dancers from right to left, starting left of podium: Tomi Tsujimura, Shizuko Oda, unidentified woman, Phyllis Midori (Ando) Muramatsu, all remaining unidentified. Inner circle of Obon dancers from right to left starting left of podium: Jimmy Yoshida, Nobuko Yoshida, Carl Yoshida, unidentified, Patricia “Pat” (Ikata) Iboshi, Marjory "Marge" (Ando) Smith, Shizuko "Shiz" (Ochiai) Ota Okazaki, all other dancers unidentified. First women sitting on benches behind Obon dancers on left hand side of image is Jean Matsumoto. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei community. This image was taken at Holladay Park in Portland, Oregon. Original print ddr-one-1-76 (ONLC 2850).
DATE
1948-1954
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
TOPICS
- Arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Dance -- Odori
- Geographic communities -- Oregon -- Portland
- Community activities -- Festivals, celebrations, and holidays -- Obon
- Identity and values -- Japanese American identity
- Religion and churches -- Buddhism
- World War II -- Leaving camp -- "Resettlement"
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Hirahara, Frank (photographer)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Frank C. Hirahara Collection, Japanese American Museum of Oregon
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
