108 items
108 items
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Nisei soldier's Purple Heart (ddr-densho-105-20)
Purple Heart awarded Minoru Tsubota, Warrant Officer (Junior Grade), 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Combat wounded in Cerebia, Italy, Aug. 24, 1944.
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Senninbari, "thousand-stitch belt" (ddr-densho-105-8)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota's mother made this senninbari in Tule Lake. It is known as a thousand-stitch belt, and was created to protect a soldier going into battle. Each of the thousand knots was sewn by a different woman. On the belt is stitched Min's Buddhist name, the traditional Buddhist chant of "Namu Amida Butsu," and a …
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Nisei boy scout (ddr-densho-105-11)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota is a member of Boy Scout Troop 450 of Kent, Washington. Rank: Tenderfoot.
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Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-105-13)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota, Warrant Officer (Junior Grade) with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
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At the Price Cafe (ddr-densho-252-146)
(Left to right) Minoru Tsubota, Cherry Chieko Tsubota nee Okura, Toshiko Yoshihara nee Okura, unknown, Ferry Hiroko Taniguchi nee Okura, Fred Wataru Taniguchi. Caption on Post-it: "Taken in remodled [sic] dining room of Price Cafe...3 Okura dau[ghter]s & husbands."
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Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from an FSA labor camp (ddr-densho-319-132)
Request for Kokusui sake.
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Family portrait (ddr-densho-252-43)
Men in suits and women in kimono in front of a building. (Left to right) Gotsuke Taniguchi, Kojima Tsubota, Yamatani [?] Tsubota, Miyako Taniguchi, Yamada Shitoshi, Tadashi Tanaguchi. Caption on Post-it: "Gotsuke-san T., Kojima (Mother Tsubota's sister), Mother Tsubota's brother, Miyako T., Yamada Shitoshi, Uncle Tadashi. COUSINS."
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Campers posing on a boulder (ddr-densho-336-81)
The 1951 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp. Top to bottom: Barb McElligot, Ellen Ogawa, Ruth Ogawa Tsubota, Ed Henmi.
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Campers sitting on a boulder (ddr-densho-336-78)
The 1951 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp. Left to right: Cherry Ogawa Henmi, Ruth Ogawa Tsubota, Ellen Ogawa, Barbara McElligot.
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Campers in a row boat (ddr-densho-336-287)
The 1970 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp. \nCaption on front: "LSR: Brad Shirakawa (left), Neil Tsubota (oars) and Ted Hasegawa."
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Japanese drama performance (ddr-densho-105-4)
Mr. Sentaro Tsubota & Mr. Juichi Hichiyakuda performing at either the Odd Fellows Hall or at the Kadoyama Hall in Kent, Washington.
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Nisei serviceman's wife (ddr-densho-105-15)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota's fiance, Cherrie Okura, at age 19. They were married March 31, 1943, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Nisei couple in front of tour bus (ddr-densho-105-16)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota and wife Cherrie at the 442nd Regimental Combat Team's 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Battle of Biffontaine, France.
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Nisei couple at a memorial (ddr-densho-105-18)
Minoru "Min" Tsubota and wife Cherrie at the dedication of the National Japanese American Memorial in Washington, D.C. The sculpture is called "The Barbed Wire Cranes" by Nina Akamu.
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Tsubota Collection (ddr-densho-105)
The Tsubota collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of Minoru "Min" Tsubota, who was interviewed by Densho in 2003. The photographs document Minoru's life growing up in Kent, Washington, through his incarceration at Tule Lake concentration camp, and finally through his military service.
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Group playing music in the boys cabin (ddr-densho-336-197)
The 1970 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp. \nCaption on front: "Brad Shirakawa, Alan Tani, Upper bunk: unknown, Neil Tsubota, Craig Morita, Ted Hasegawa."
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Shoe Repair staff, Amache Consumer Enterprises (ddr-densho-163-31)
Back (L to R): T. Nonaka, M. Washizu, Y. Ogawa, S. Nogawa. Front (L to R): M. Uyehara, K. Maruyama, T. Matsuoka, J. Tsubota.
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Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Orchestra (ddr-densho-259-323)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church orchestra. This was not the same organization as the band. Here LeRoy (?) Burns was the orchestra organizer, leader and instructor. I think that Rev. [Isaac] Inouye just lent moral support. Notice that on the bass drum...it reads, 'H.R.H.S.', and 'Japanese'...HRHS of course stood for Hood …
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Letter from Keith McCoy to Isami Tsubota (ddr-one-3-108)
Thank you letter to Isami "Sami" Tsubota from Keith McCoy. Also a page of handwritten notes about the Japanese families who had lived in White Salmon and the surrounding area before WWII.
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Ruth Ogawa Tsubota and Michio Takahashi in the mess hall (ddr-densho-336-80)
The 1951 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp. Left to right: Ruth Ogawa, Michi Takahashi.