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vh Takashi Hori - Yoshito Mizuta - Elmer Tazuma Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-25-3)

Family background, Elmer Tazuma

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img Photo of an Issei man (ddr-densho-24-3)

Bunshiro Tazuma, 29 years old.

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img Funeral service for an Issei man (ddr-densho-24-24)

Funeral service for Bunshiro Tazuma who died on 3/29/88 at 104 years old. Sons & spouses (L to R): Frances (59 yrs), Jim (62 yrs), Miyoka (58 yrs), Nobi (67 yrs), Elmer (72 yrs), Masako (62 yrs), Yukio (59 yrs), Kimi (50 yrs).

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img Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary family photo (ddr-densho-24-16)

L to R: Jim (14 yrs), Bunshiro (55 yrs), Elmer (23 yrs), Sawano (44 yrs), Nobi (18 yrs), Yuki (11 yrs).

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img Funeral service for an Issei woman (ddr-densho-24-23)

Funeral service for Sawano Tazuma (90 yrs old at the time of her death). L to R: Jim (60 yrs), Yukio (57 yrs), Bunshiro (102 yrs), Nobi (64 yrs), Elmer (70 yrs).

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img Family portrait (ddr-densho-24-2)

Tazuma family photo: Front (L to R): Sawano, Jimbo, Yuki, Bunshiro; Back (L to R): Nobi, Elmer.

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img The Tazuma Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-24-13)

Bunshiro and Sawano Tazuma owned the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store located at 12th Avenue and Jackson Street in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown. The store sold both American- and Japanese-made goods. Front: Yukio Tazuma. Back (left to right): Sawano and Bunshiro Tazuma.

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img Family portrait (ddr-densho-24-10)

Tazuma family (L to R): Sawano (25 yrs old), Elmer (4 yrs old), Bunshiro (36 yrs old).

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img Issei couple's 70th wedding anniversary (ddr-densho-24-26)

Front row (L to R): Yuki (56), Kirk (9), Elmer (68), Bunshiro (100), Sawano (89), Nobi (63). Middle row (L to R): Kimi (47), Masako (59), Frances Tazuma-Hamanishi (34), Larry (19), Grace (18), Roy (23), Miyoko (55). Back row (L to R): Stanley (24), Ron (25), Tom (28), Marvin Hamanishi (34).

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img Children from Nihonmachi (ddr-densho-23-1)

Six neighborhood boys pose for photographer Elmer Tazuma. Front (left to right): Tsuji Yoshihara, Tadao Shibuya, and Junkichi Tazuma. Back: Nobi Tazuma, Frank Takano, and Takeshi Shibuya.

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img Japanese American in front of barracks (ddr-densho-23-3)

Sawano Tazuma.

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img Issei man's 100th birthday (ddr-densho-24-22)

Bunshiro Tazuma celebrates his 100th birthday. His son Nobi, sixty-three years old, stands next to him.

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img Two brothers on an outing (ddr-densho-23-2)

Yukio Tazuma (left) and his older brother Nobi enjoy a day of exploring.

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doc Naturalization certificate (ddr-densho-23-16)

Sawano Tazuma and her husband Bunshiro operated the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store at 12th Avenue and Jackson Street in Seattle's Nihonmachi. The Tazumas were not allowed to become naturalized American citizens until 1952, when the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed. Sawano finally became a citizen in 1954 at the age of fifty-eight, thirty-five years after settling …

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img Issei couple sitting on barracks porch (ddr-densho-24-20)

Sawano (left), and Bunshiro Tazuma in front of their barrack. The Tazumas were originally from Seattle, Washington, and owned the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store on Jackson Street before World War II.

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img Interior, the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-24-14)

Sawano Tazuma (left) and Misao Tanaka inside the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store located at 12th Avenue and Jackson Street.

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img Issei woman working in a garden (ddr-densho-24-18)

Sawano Tazuma (46 yrs old).

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img Tazuma Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-24-1)

The Tazuma Ten-Cent store was located at Twelfth and Jackson in Seattle, Washington.

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doc Storage list for Tazuma (ddr-sbbt-2-223)

A check-in list for goods belonging to Tazuma, moved from the Buddhist Church (Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple) to Lyon Van and Storage Company's lot 745.

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img Funeral service for an Issei man (ddr-densho-24-25)

Seattle Buddhist Temple funeral service for Bunshiro Tazuma, 104 yrs old. His grandchildren served as pallbearers. L to R clockwise: Kirk (12 yrs), Frances (37 yrs), Stan (27 yrs), Tom (31 yrs), Ron (28 yrs), Larry (22 yrs), Ray (26 yrs), Laurie (35 yrs), Grace (21 yrs).

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doc Hand-drawn map of Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown (ddr-densho-24-17)

This map of Nihonmachi, circa 1939, was drawn by Yukio Tazuma. Tazuma's parents owned the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store at 12th Avenue and Jackson Street before World War II. The map shows the many Japanese-owned businesses between 12th Avenue and Rainier Avenue South (upper Jackson Street).

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img Photo of Issei man (ddr-densho-24-21)

Bunshiro Tazuma, 89 years old, receives the "Order of the Rising Sun" (6th class medal) from the Japanese government at the Japanese Consulate.

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doc Medical inspection card (ddr-densho-23-14)

Bunshiro Tazuma was a longtime Seattle resident and the owner of the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store in Seattle's Nihonmachi. In 1917, he immigrated to Seattle and became a permanent resident. (From 1908 to 1914, he had worked in Montana.) The Issei were required to carry medical inspection cards in conjunction with several other documents to show that …

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doc Immigrant inspection card (ddr-densho-23-12)

Immigrants were required by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to carry an inspection card. During their voyage from Japan, Issei were checked daily to ensure that they were not carrying communicable diseases (see bottom portion of first page). Information from the card indicates that the steamship voyage from Japan took approximately eighteen days. This card belonged …

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doc Japanese passport (ddr-densho-23-5)

English and French translations of the Japanese passport belonging to Bunshiro Tazuma. The Issei, mostly young Japanese males, began immigrating to the United States in the late 1800s. Many were farmers or students with dreams of returning to Japan after making their fortunes in America. The vast majority never realized this dream.

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