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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Four Nisei children on tricycles and wagons (ddr-densho-259-188)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Four little kids on various vehicles on a sloping sidewalk. From left to right, Roku [Yasui], Michi [Yasui], Rin Karasawa & Min[oru Yasui]. This was taken at the Karasawa home, which doubled as their laundry on Oak Street."
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Portrait of Nisei man in a suit (ddr-densho-259-447)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Harry Iwatsuki, the son of Kamegoro and Shizue Iwatsuki." Signature: "Sincerely Harry."
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Aerial view of islands in the Columbia River (ddr-densho-259-205)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two islands in the Columbia River, slightly west of the town of Mosier, OR."
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Nikkei at a train depot (ddr-densho-259-236)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Some [Hood River] Nikkei next to a train, maybe seeing the Rev. Uemura's off."
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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Young Nisei man in tam (ddr-densho-259-242)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay [Yasui] wearing a white tam standing in the doorway of what looks like the hisashi (attached shed) to our Third Street [Hood River] home."
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Portrait of Japanese family in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-495)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Formal portrait of the Saburo and Fumi Miyake Midori (Saburo & Fumi's firstborn child), Goro, Shiro, Saburo, and Saburo/[Shidzuyo Yasui]'s mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake."
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Nisei boy holding dead pheasant and shotgun (ddr-densho-259-465)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] holding a dead pheasant in his left hand and cradling a shotgun in his right arm, Third Street home [Hood River, Oregon]."
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Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-260)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a young Japanese man wearing a striped suit and holding an apple in each hand. I don't know who this man was."
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Nisei baseball players (ddr-densho-259-539)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] in baseball shin guards, with other presumed baseball players. This may well have been part of the Nisei Athletic Club baseball team."
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Nisei girls with dog (ddr-densho-259-404)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Yuka [Yasui], a dog ['Mike'] and Chiye Tomihiro. This was taken on the back sidewalk steps to our home at 704 Montello Avenue in Hood River."
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Family gathering in Japanese cemetery (ddr-densho-259-281)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A gathering of the Yasui family clan at the family cemetery in Nanukaichi in the summer of 1926, when the American Yasuis visited their Japanese relatives."
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Issei man preparing for journey to Japan (ddr-densho-259-458)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Can [Renichi Fujimoto] and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] at the Hood River railroad station, where Chan left for Japan in late 1929 to get his wife, Matsuyo."
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White missionary family (ddr-densho-259-170)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Missionary family from Hood River. Went to the Phillipines." Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is the Landis family, whom we knew years ago in Hood River."
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Issei woman holding an infant (ddr-densho-259-409)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A young Japanese woman holding an infant in her arms, standing on the front porch."
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Grandmother and grandchildren on a settee (ddr-densho-259-47)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Hisa Fujii Miyake, my maternal grandmother, with Saburo Miyake's three young children on a settee."
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Issei man and woman in front of a black car (ddr-densho-259-218)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Issei man and woman in cloche hat standing in front of a large black car."
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"Portland Japanese community's contribution to the Rose Festival parade" (ddr-densho-259-329)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This surely must have been the Portland Japanese community's contribution to the Rose Festival parade."
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Nisei baby smiling (ddr-densho-259-103)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay [Yasui] as a baby. This may very well have been taken at [Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasui's] first home, which was at Columbia Street in Hood River."
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Nisei children gathered in a living room (ddr-densho-259-193)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Yasui children, from Michi on down, together with the Shimbo children, in the living room of the latter. The Shimbos were family friends living in Walla Walla, WA, and we went to visit them one summer."