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img Formal portrait of eight Japanese men in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-54)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo] and [Shinataro] Yasui posing with 6 young Japanese men."

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img Five Japanese American men (ddr-densho-259-481)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] in a group portrait with 4 other Nihonjin men."

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img Two Issei men and three white women (ddr-densho-259-39)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] featured with several Caucasian women. I don't know what this represents and I don't know the women."

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img Issei men in Rose Festival attire (ddr-densho-259-411)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Masuo Yasui and Katsusaburo Tamura, in their Rose Festival clothing, standing in front of the Japanese Methodist Mission in Portland."

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img Issei men and a woman standing by a guard rail (ddr-densho-259-214)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] with 2 other Issei men and a woman [shows] the front part of what I think was our old Studebaker."

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img Loving cup award being presented (ddr-densho-259-342)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] received a loving cup [the 'Silver Loving Cup' award] presented by the Hood River Japanese community in appreciation for services rendered."

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img Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-260)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a young Japanese man wearing a striped suit and holding an apple in each hand. I don't know who this man was."

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img Issei and Nisei men at railroad depot (ddr-densho-259-148)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], Kay and Ches, together with an unidentified Japanese man, standing in front of the old Hood River Railroad Depot I will guess that Kay was 17 here, and Ches 16."

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img Issei and Nisei men at railroad depot (ddr-densho-259-212)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], Kay and Ches, together with an unidentified Japanese man, standing in front of the old Hood River Railroad Depot I will guess that Kay was 17 here, and Ches 16."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-212/

img Japanese visitors at a fruit packing house (ddr-densho-259-255)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a group of 3 Japanese visitors and a young Japanese girl [Masuo] was showing the visitors what our fruit sorting conveyor belt looked like in the packing house at Willow Flat."

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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 …

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img Issei men preparing for Portland's Rose Festival (ddr-densho-259-138)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and Katsusaburo Tamura, dressed in all-white clothing They must have been so dressed because they were going to take part in Portland's first Rose Festival parade." Photograph taken outside the Portland Japanese Methodist Mission.

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img Issei and Nisei family (ddr-densho-259-200)

Portrait of the Yasui family on the courthouse lawn in Hood River, Oregon. Shidzuyo Yasui, Yuka Yasui, Masuo Yasui, and Renichi Fujimoto are in the back row. Homer, Roku, Shu, Michi, Minoru, and Ches (Tsuyoshi) Yasui are in the front row.

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img Issei men in hansom cab (ddr-densho-259-278)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], the Reverend S. Yoshioka, and A. Ikeda (the driver) in a horse-drawn hansom cab. Behind the cab, the first Yasui brothers store with the sign, is seen. The street which surely must have been State Street, was a dirt road."

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img Portrait of an Issei man in Western clothing (ddr-densho-259-57)

Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Masuo Yasui came to the United States alone, departing from Yokohama, Japan on the Ryojun Maru, at the age of 16-1/2 years. He arrived in Seattle on June 4, 1903."

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img Four Issei men in Parkdale, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-191)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] standing with 3 other Issei men on what appears to be a lawn. Since Tadao Sato is one of the men, and he's the only one wearing farm work clothes, I will guess that the others came to visit him at his orchard, which was in Parkdale."

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img Four Issei men in Parkdale, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-28)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] standing with 3 other Issei men on what appears to be a lawn. Since Tadao Sato is one of the men, and he's the only one wearing farm work clothes, I will guess that the others came to visit him at his orchard, which was in Parkdale."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-28/

img Issei men alongside a touring car (ddr-densho-259-192)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and another man standing alongside a touring car. The interesting thing about this picture is that the sign on the wall of the building says, 'E.C. Smith Motor Co.' I doubt that this was a business run by Ernest C. Smith, [Masuo]'s old friend. but who knows? E.C. Smith's business …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-192/

img Japanese Americans at a cabin in Mosier, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-279)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The reason why we were all [at a cabin in Mosier, Oregon] that summer was because along about 1929 [Masuo Yasui] developed an almost lethal case of lobar pneumonia [His wife, Shidzuyo] insisted that he quit work entirely and work on the business of getting well. To that end our whole family …

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img Yasui Brothers store in Hood River (ddr-densho-259-160)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Daiichi Takeoka and Keisuke Ito of Portland, [Masuo Yasui], [Shidzuyo Yasui] and Senichi Tomihiro standing in front of the main door to the second Yasui Brothers store in Hood River."

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img Family gathering in Japanese cemetery (ddr-densho-259-281)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A gathering of the Yasui family clan at the family cemetery in Nanukaichi in the summer of 1926, when the American Yasuis visited their Japanese relatives."

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img Issei men and woman on the sidewalk (ddr-densho-259-144)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Mitsie Yamaki, Mr. Yamaki [Yeitaro Yamaki?], Shig, Dad [Masuo Yasui]."

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img Men near a bridge (ddr-densho-259-20)

Four Japanese American men near a bridge, two of whom are Daiichi Takeoka and Masuo Yasui.

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img Two Japanese American families on farmland (ddr-densho-259-247)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Nikkei visitors to what must surely have been the Willow Flat farm both [Shidzuyo and Masuo Yasui] are dressed in their farm working clothes This photo shows the typical farm working clothes that [Shidzuyo]--and almost all of the Hood River valley Issei women of the time wore, when working in the orchards …

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img Issei men at a funeral (ddr-densho-259-340)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of 50 or more well dressed Issei men, many of whom appear to be wearing black armbands, so this may have been a post-funeral scene. This gathering may have been to mourn the death of the Emperor Meiji."

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