Search Results | Densho Digital Repository

img Japanese girls in class picture (ddr-densho-259-108)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], front row, 2nd from right." Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this posed group picture or [sic] 19 young Japanese women of whom [Shidzuyo Yasui] is one, I suspect that this must have been a class picture. She doesn't look that much older than the rest of them."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-108/

img Tea ceremony demonstration (ddr-densho-259-135)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] teaching a tea ceremony class at the [Hood River] Japanese Community Hall. Most of the women are dressed in kimono, but all of them probably had been taking lessons."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-135/

img Nisei girls wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-221)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Yuka and Michi [Yasui] sitting, and wearing kimono. Michi is holding a cloth parasol. This is a very cute picture, and I'd guess that Yuka was around 3 years old then."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-221/

img Two Nisei brothers in front of a fence (ddr-densho-259-180)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very cute picture of Kay and Ches [Yasui] when they were little boys. I will guess that Kay was 4 and Ches was 3 when it was taken."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-180/

img Two Nisei brothers in front of a fence (ddr-densho-259-82)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a very cute picture of Kay and Ches [Yasui] when they were little boys. I will guess that Kay was 4 and Ches was 3 when it was taken."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-82/

img Board of Directors of the Apple Growers Association (ddr-densho-259-29)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "I don't recognize any of the 14 Caucasian men in this group picture with [Masuo Yasui], but I suspect that they were the Board of Directors of the Apple Growers Association."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-29/

img Acreage of strawberry plants (ddr-densho-259-268)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large acreage of strawberry plants I will guess that it was taken at either Summit or in Dee."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-268/

img Issei and Nisei men at railroad depot (ddr-densho-259-148)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], Kay and Ches, together with an unidentified Japanese man, standing in front of the old Hood River Railroad Depot I will guess that Kay was 17 here, and Ches 16."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-148/

img Group portrait in front of torii in Japan (ddr-densho-259-292)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Large number of Japan relatives (my guess) with Michi [Yasui]. There's a fairly large torii [gate] in the background and what seems to be ongoing construction of a mon (Japanese entrance gate)."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-292/

img Issei and Nisei men at railroad depot (ddr-densho-259-212)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], Kay and Ches, together with an unidentified Japanese man, standing in front of the old Hood River Railroad Depot I will guess that Kay was 17 here, and Ches 16."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-212/

img Issei men in hansom cab (ddr-densho-259-278)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui], the Reverend S. Yoshioka, and A. Ikeda (the driver) in a horse-drawn hansom cab. Behind the cab, the first Yasui brothers store with the sign, is seen. The street which surely must have been State Street, was a dirt road."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-278/

img Portrait of an Issei man in Western clothing (ddr-densho-259-57)

Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Masuo Yasui came to the United States alone, departing from Yokohama, Japan on the Ryojun Maru, at the age of 16-1/2 years. He arrived in Seattle on June 4, 1903."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-57/

img Portrait of Issei man and white man (ddr-densho-259-139)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a formal portrait of [Masuo Yasui] and a Caucasian man, but it's undated. It was taken by the S. Ninomiya photographic studio in Portland, so this had to be rather early."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-139/

img Japanese American family at home (ddr-densho-259-102)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Portland Maeda family, showing Mrs. Yoshiko Maeda, France, Milton & Roy in their home, when the children were very young."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-102/

img Family portrait in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-240)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese print showing more of the Miyake's in Japan. I recognize Aunt Fumi, Cousin Midori Miyake and Grandma Hisa Miyake."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-240/

img Issei men around a table (ddr-densho-259-341)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of 33 Issei men in business suits in a small room gathered around a white cloth-covered long table."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-341/

img Student orchestra (ddr-densho-259-549)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Some sort of an orchestra Maybe it was a grade school, or even a Hood River Junior High School orchestra."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-549/

img Japanese women and girls in kimono (ddr-densho-259-119)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is one representative view [of Shidzuyo Yasui], although I have no idea who the people are that she's pictured with. Two young girls in kimono flank her, and a couple of older women stand behind her." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-119/

img Issei men outside a store (ddr-densho-259-265)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is the Oak Street view of the back half of the second Yasui Brothers store in Hood River. The man at the left was Kamematsu Norimatsu, but I don't know the other man."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-265/

img Japanese visitors at a fruit packing house (ddr-densho-259-255)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a group of 3 Japanese visitors and a young Japanese girl [Masuo] was showing the visitors what our fruit sorting conveyor belt looked like in the packing house at Willow Flat."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-255/

img Japanese American extended family (ddr-densho-259-105)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group picture of the Hood River Yasui family and relatives In the first row, George Katayama is seated on a tricycle Kay [Yasui] is seated on the toy dog, also in the first row. In the second row, left to right, is Shizuyo Katayama; Ches [Yasui] on the lap of Shintaro Yasui …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-105/

img Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-525)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Probable wedding portrait of Kamematsu Norimatsu and his bride, Shizuko. Kamematsu came to America in 1905, and his wife in 1916."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-525/

img Japanese family in formal attire (ddr-densho-259-152)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Unknown Japanese family in Japan in formal wear. This is pictured only to show a very nice looking family, classily dressed."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-152/

img Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-519)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding portrait of the Reverend Isaac Inouye and his bride, Matsue I believe that they got married in Japan around 1935."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-519/

img Nikkei family with deer at Miyajima, Japan (ddr-densho-259-390)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Yasuta and Ichino Kageyama family at Miyajima, Japan. [Left to right]: Eiichi (Bob), Ichino, Mikie, Mariko (Molly), Yasuta, Lina (Lena, Charlee)."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-390/

Filters