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438 items
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"Issei in quasi-feudal Japanese costumes" (ddr-densho-259-453)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A group of Hood River Issei in quasi-feudal Japanese costumes. I think that this picture was taken at our Mosier farm because of the hills in the background I suspect that this was another undokai [field day/sports day]."
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Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-259-365)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "I think that this gathering took place in front of what was then called the Centenary Wilbur Methodist Church, in Portland I suspect that this was a YPCC--Young People's Christian Conference--because many of the Nisei are wearing identification badges."
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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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School portrait of a boy in Japan (ddr-densho-259-58)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a schoolboy portrait of [Masuo Yasui] in Japan around [age] 14 or 15. He attended Kojokwan High School, which was located in Nishi (west) Ibara [He] didn't graduate from high school because he emigrated to the United States before then. At best, he may have been the equivalent of an …
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Family portrait of Issei and Nisei (ddr-densho-259-378)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Yasui family of Mosier, showing father, mother, two young girls and a young boy. The bigger girl is Kazuko and the other one is Shizue. The boy is Takaaki 'Frank.' Our families are not related, although Tokujiro and his wife Masashi--and in fact, all of the Yasuis that I've …
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Japanese American Families in Hood River, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-48)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Taken in Hood River, on the southwest corner of Second Street and Oak Street. The sign on the window of the corner shop says, 'Slocums Book Store', and further back there is an overhead sign that says, 'Drugs'. The latter was Keir's Drug Store...The picture shows...[Shidzuyo Yasui], [Masuo Yasui], Senichi Tomihiro, Daiichi …
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Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference (ddr-densho-259-164)
Caption in Japanese at bottom of photograph: "Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large print gathering of some Hood River Issei , together with a large number of out-of-town Issei women in front of the Hood River Community Hall."
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Family portrait in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-134)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Part of the Miyake family in Japan, before [Shidzuyo] left to start teaching school. Pictured are Grandma Hisa Fujii Miyake, Grandpa Ichiro Miyake, Great Grandma Tsuno Sato Miyake, Uncle Saburo and Mom [Shidzuyo]. There's a little girl in this picture, but she's unidentified."
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Married couple and mother in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-130)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese photograph of Ichiro Miyake ([Shidzuyo Yasui's] father) who was born on August 28, 1865; [Shidzuyo's] mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake, who was born on March 3, 1865, and Ichiro's mother, whose maiden name was Tsuna Sato, who was born on March 3, 1838."
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"The graduation exercise of the Americanization School sponsored by Japanese Ancestral Society" (ddr-densho-259-394)
Front of photograph: "The graduation exercise of the Americanization School sponsored by Japanese Ancestral Society Portland, Oreg. May 28, 1953." Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of the Issei in the Portland area who graduated from the Americanization school, in preparation for taking their citizenship examinations."
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Strawberry fields (ddr-densho-259-80)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very large acreage of strawberries on our Willow Flat farm At one time or another, almost all of the land on the 'home 60' (sixty acres) had been planted in strawberries, but of course not at the same time."
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Wedding party (ddr-densho-259-511)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding party of Jane Kyono and Tokutaro Ted Mori, who was an Issei born in Shiga ken in 1903. This picture was taken in front of the same Buddhist Church where so many other group pictures of Nikkei were taken in Portland."
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Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-259-296)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Posed group photo of another YPCC [Young People's Christian Conference], this time at the Centenary-Wilbur Church which was on the eastside of Portland." Caption on front of photograph: "Fourth Oregon Sectional Y.P.C.C. Centenary - Wilbur Church, Portland, Oregon, March 28-29, 1936."
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Issei men wearing derbies on a hillside (ddr-densho-259-334)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of twelve well dressed Issei men, most of whom are also wearing derbies, and sitting among a field of bracken fern on a side hill. I think that this was taken at the Vista House on the Columbia River highway [in Crown Point, Oregon]."
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Portrait of Caucasian pastor and his family (ddr-densho-259-389)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of a Caucasian family On the back of the picture, it says that 'This photo has [sic] presented from Mrs. N Evans Rev. Evans was a pastor of the Methodist Church, and he has apointed [sic] as the pastor of Pendel Aug. 1901.'"
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"Shinbo's Restaurant" (ddr-densho-259-347)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Shinbo's Restaurant', Walla Walla, Washington. That may not have been the real name of the restaurant This was a pretty nice restaurant for its days, which was around 1938 when we visited them. There are six Caucasian waitresses, so that was a pretty sizeable operation."
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"Hood River Nikkei community" (ddr-densho-259-141)
Hood River Nikkei community. Caption by Homer Yasui: " [This picture] was surely taken on the side of the little hill which was slightly to the east and north of the [Hood River] Japanese Community Hall The Hall was built around then, so this may have been a commemorative portrait."
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Japanese Americans at a cabin in Mosier, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-59)
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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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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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 …
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Issei Yale Law graduate in cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-430)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Japanese man in a cap and gown. Although I don't know who the man was on the photograph it says 'Yale Law -- '11' He had to have been an Issei, and to have graduated from such a prestigious school then, indicated a very talented young man."
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Japanese family on a ship to America (ddr-densho-259-122)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Picture of [Renichi Fujimoto] and [Matsuyo Fujimoto] and another Japanese man, standing on the deck of a ship. Since Obasan is wearing a kimono, this must have been taken when she left for American with [Renichi, her husband]. They arrived in Seattle on March 10, 1931."
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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."
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Party crossing Mosier Lake on a rowboat (ddr-densho-259-132)
Caption by Masuo Yasui: "On July 20th, 1924 Oak Grove Japanese hold a picnic at Yasui Bro[ther]'s Ranch at Mosier [Lake]. A party is ready to cross." Caption by Homer Yasui: "This was an undokai (a combination picnic and field day) which was/is a classical Japanese American festivity anywhere in the U.S. Dad has caption this …
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Issei man in kimono (ddr-densho-259-140)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of [Masuo Yasui] dressed in a kimono, with a long, knee length dark over-kimono, but it wasn't a montsuki, because there are no crests. He's wearing a straw boater. I think that this picture must have been taken in Japan when our family went there for a 2-1/2 month visit in …