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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 Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono playing the koto (ddr-densho-259-65)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-65/

img Group of Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-69)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a group picture taken in Japan, of a bunch of young women dressed in kimono, with a couple of little kids in front and only one man. My guess is that this group represents graduating students or very young teachers, which [Shidzuyo Yasui] was at one time."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-69/

img Family portrait in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-240)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese print showing more of the Miyake's in Japan. I recognize Aunt Fumi, Cousin Midori Miyake and Grandma Hisa Miyake."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-240/

img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-63)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-63/

img Japanese home (ddr-densho-259-359)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A very substantial Japanese house There are cylindrical bales wrapped in rice straw, and they must surely contain rice, because that's the way they did it in the old days. This picture may very well have been taken somewhere in rural Japan at around the turn of the century."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-359/

img Japanese relatives with a Shinto priest (ddr-densho-259-497)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of Japanese relatives, with a Shinto priest I don't know the reason for this family gathering of representatives from both sides of our family, but I will guess that it had to do with the deification of one of our ancestors--maybe even Ichiro Miyake."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-497/

img Three young Japanese men in traditional clothing (ddr-densho-259-56)

Masuo Yasui and friends dressed in traditional Japanese clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: Some are "wearing yukata (summer kimono) and on Masuo, something like a haori (short, semi-formal Japanese coat). All are wearing what look like waraji (rice straw sandals), but that doesn't seem quite right because...waraji were only used for rough wear or if the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-56/

img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-68)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-68/

img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-67)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-67/

img Japanese woman and child in kimono (ddr-densho-259-267)

Unidentified Japanese woman and child.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-267/

img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono with doll (ddr-densho-259-64)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-64/

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 Group photograph of Japanese men and women with Hinomaru (ddr-densho-259-178)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another group photograph of many young Japanse women wearing semi-formal kimono. The 5-6 Japanese men are all wearing Western suits and ties. This must have been some sort of a formal celebration, because crossed Japanese flags, called Hino maru, are in the background. [Shidzuyo Yasui] is shown 4th from the right in …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-178/

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 Meredith, Barb and Miyuki bathing (ddr-densho-259-626)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-626/

img Japanese man and woman reading in a garden (ddr-densho-259-238)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese print, showing a Japanese man and a Japanese woman wearing rather tall geta (Japanese wooden clogs). Both of them seem to be reading from a piece of white paper. On their left is a small Japanese garden."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-238/

img Portrait of Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-66)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shots of [Shidzuyo Yasui] before she got married. She's dressed in kimono in each of the pictures, but each pose is somewhat different."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-66/

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 Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-519)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding portrait of the Reverend Isaac Inouye and his bride, Matsue I believe that they got married in Japan around 1935."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-519/

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 Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-518)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding portrait, presumably, of a young couple in Japan the man is wearing a formal montsuki, as well as the formal pleated trousers--hakama--and is holding the usual folded paper fan The bride, however, isn't wearing the usual horn-of-jealousy-concealing-white headcover--called a tsuno kakushi (literally, a horn hider)...I have no idea who the couple …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-518/

img Japanese women on tatami mats (ddr-densho-259-489)

Rei Kuga and an unidentified woman wearing kimono sitting on tatami mats.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-489/

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 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/

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