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img Issei man and children at train station (ddr-densho-259-195)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru], Michi, Roku, Shu, Homer & Yuka standing with Chan [Renichi Fujimoto] at the Hood River train depot. This was probably taken in the winter of 1929, when Chan went back to Japan to bring Obasan [Matsuyo Fujimoto] home to Hood River."

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img Japanese women on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-98)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

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img Three Nisei brothers on steps (ddr-densho-259-499)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi] & Min[oru Yasui], sitting on the steps of what I believe might have been the Yasui Brothers second store in Hood River [Oregon]."

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img Japanese women on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-101)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

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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 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 Family portrait (ddr-densho-259-552)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of the Senichi and Satoru Tomihiro family, with Chiye."

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img Portrait of Issei man (ddr-densho-259-501)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another formal portrait of Senichi Tomihiro, again as a young man."

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img Aerial photograph of Mosier Lake, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-202)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Mosier Lake', which was on our farm property in Mosier [Oregon]."

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img Aerial photograph of Mosier Lake, Oregon (ddr-densho-259-361)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Mosier Lake', which was on our farm property in Mosier [Oregon]."

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img People at the ceremony for the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (ddr-densho-10-193)

Caption on reverse: "Old Exec. Off. Bldg. Shig Wakamatsu, Homer Yasui, Bryan Matsui, Doris Matsui, True Yasui, Pat Okura, Helen Hayashi (Mineta's aide San Jose)."

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img Two Nisei girls and a white girl in kimono (ddr-densho-259-233)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi and Yuka [Yasui] in kimono and zori (Japanese sandals) with a Caucasian girl [Bette Miller], also in kimono, between them."

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img "Young Nisei boy standing in a car behind the steering wheel" (ddr-densho-259-386)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Nisei boy standing in a car behind the steering wheel. Yuka [Yasui] has captioned this youngster as being Kay Takeoka."

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img Man Smoking as He Unwraps Gift (ddr-ohs-1-265)

Man may be Homer Yasui but is not identified. From the photo album titled: Barbara Yasui and Robert Hayman Wedding. June 19, 1977. S.F. Presidio

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img "Japanese girls school beach outing" (ddr-densho-259-79)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese girls school beach outing, Sumoto School, Awaji, Japan." Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Beach at Sumoto Awaji where [Shidzuyo Yasui] taught. [Shidzuyo] 2nd row. 10th from the left."

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img Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-201)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Yasui children standing on the Hood River courthouse lawn It shows the band-stand in which the Knights of Pythias Band occasionalyl gave concerts in the summertime. It also shows the 12 pounder Napoleon smoothbore cannon of American Civil War vintage."

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doc Draft Resolution opposing the dismissal of Ed Yamamoto (ddr-chijacl-1-60)

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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 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."

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Narrator Homer Yasui

Nisei male. Born December 28, 1924, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Hood River, where father and uncles ran a store. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, attended college in Denver and Philadelphia. Eventually became a physician and returned to …

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img Issei mother and sons on the street (ddr-densho-259-186)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui], and Min[oru Yasui] in a baby buggy, standing across the street from the First National Bank in Hood River. They are standing on the SW corner of 3rd and Oak Streets."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-186/

img Nisei boys at the beach (ddr-densho-259-127)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[This is] the Columbia River beach at the [Yasui family's] Mosier farm, and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] & Min[oru Yasui], and the 2 Kanemasu brothers, Kazuo and Wataru, are playing around in the water in their underwear."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-127/

img Japanese women and a stork (ddr-densho-259-113)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] and a friend visiting Korakuen Park in Okayama ken [prefecture]. There is a Japanese stork (tsuru) shown in this photo also."

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img Nisei baby in yard (ddr-densho-259-469)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Shu [Yasui] at the Third Street home. In this picture, I don't think he had any more hair then then he does now."

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img University of Oregon coed (ddr-densho-259-24)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] was a [University of Oregon] coed here, standing on the steps of what may have been her dormitory, Susan Campbell Hall."

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