Buddhist Convention
PARTNER
Japanese American Museum of Oregon
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OBJECT ID
ddr-one-1-334 (ONLC 3152)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Black and white photographic negative of large crowd of Buddhists gathered outside Collin's Field House in Seattle, Washington for a Buddhist convention. First row: Kiku Fujita, unidentified, Nancy from Tacoma, and Yasuko (Hashimoto) Morita. Second row, far right is Irene (Fujii) Mano. Third row far right: Sumiye (Fukei) Kato. Fourth row far left: Yosh Tanabe, Ted Taniguchi, and Dorothy (Yoshida) Nishimura. Fifth row in center holding a young child is Kazuo Yokoyama. Sixth row second from left: Kiyo (Ishikawa) Harada, third from the left: George Mizumori. Fifth row second from the right is Jack Matsui. Back row far left is Mr. Yamada.
DATE
02/29/1952-03/02/1952
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
TOPICS
- Geographic communities -- Oregon -- Portland
- Geographic communities -- Washington -- Seattle
- Community activities -- Conventions and conferences
- Identity and values -- Japanese American identity
- Religion and churches -- Buddhism
- World War II -- Leaving camp -- "Resettlement"
- World War II -- Leaving camp -- Returning home
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.
