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Formal portrait of a Japanese man (ddr-densho-259-239)
img Formal portrait of a Japanese man (ddr-densho-259-239)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Formal portrait of our oldest uncle on [Masuo Yasui's] side, Taiitsuro Yasui. Taiitsuro is wearing the formal haori (formal Japanese outer jacket), but the Yasui family crest, which is a tachibana (stylized tangerine blossom), can't be seen."
Multi-generational family portrait in Japan (ddr-densho-259-534)
img Multi-generational family portrait in Japan (ddr-densho-259-534)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait, presumably many of the extended Yasui clan in Nanukaichi, Japan. Prominent in the center is our uncle, Taiitsuro Yasui, and on his immediate right, his wife, Kameno Kawasaki Yasui. Our Yasui grandmother, Tsune [Tsuya?] Katayama Yasui, is on Taiitsuro's left. I think that that's Yasuo Yasui on Grandma Yasui's left--he was …
Nisei girl visiting family in Japan (ddr-densho-259-289)
img Nisei girl visiting family in Japan (ddr-densho-259-289)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui]'s visit to Japan in the summer of 1940 Front, [left to right]: Yasuo, Michi, Kameno, Taiitsuro. Back, [left to right]: Tokiko, Norie (Yasuo's wife), Hiroshi, Sachiko."
Japanese relatives with a Shinto priest (ddr-densho-259-497)
img 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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