117 items
117 items
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Japanese American family on a farm (ddr-densho-259-171)
Kay Yasui, Tsuyoshi (Ches) Yasui, Renichi Fujimoto, Masuo Yasui, and Michi Yasui sitting outside.
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Issei men at train depot (ddr-densho-259-157)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Hood River Depot, Chan [Renichi Fujimoto], Dad [Masuo Yasui]."
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Issei man (ddr-densho-259-324)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a middle aged man."
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Issei men and woman on the sidewalk (ddr-densho-259-144)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Mitsie Yamaki, Mr. Yamaki [Yeitaro Yamaki?], Shig, Dad [Masuo Yasui]."
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Formal portrait of eight Japanese men in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-54)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo] and [Shinataro] Yasui posing with 6 young Japanese men."
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Five Japanese American men (ddr-densho-259-481)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] in a group portrait with 4 other Nihonjin men."
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Issei men at train depot (ddr-densho-259-145)
Left to right: unknown man, Masuo Yasui, and Yeitaro Yamaki.
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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."
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Issei men alongside a touring car (ddr-densho-259-192)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and another man standing alongside a touring car. The interesting thing about this picture is that the sign on the wall of the building says, 'E.C. Smith Motor Co.' I doubt that this was a business run by Ernest C. Smith, [Masuo]'s old friend. but who knows? E.C. Smith's business …
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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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Portrait of a young man in Japan (ddr-densho-259-60)
Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing, taken in Japan, probably soon before his emigration to the United States.
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Issei men and Nisei girl on farmland (ddr-densho-259-248)
Masuo Yasui with two unidentified Issei men and one unidentified Nisei girl on farmland.
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Portrait of two young men in Japan (ddr-densho-259-61)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This Japanese picture of [Masuo Yasui] and a friend shows both of them in Western gear. My guess is that both of these young boys were getting ready to emigrate to the U.S., but I don't know who his buddy was."
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Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-448)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "An early Hood River parade, showing the [Hood River] Japanese marching up Oak Street in medieval costumes, probably during the Fourth of July. According to Ruth Guppy, this parade was held on July 4, 1914, following a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado at Coe's Spring...[Masuo Yasui] can be seen in …
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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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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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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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Men in a field (ddr-densho-259-536)
Two pictures of unidentified men in a field. The man in the center of the upper image is possibly Masuo Yasui.
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Two Issei men and three white women (ddr-densho-259-39)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] featured with several Caucasian women. I don't know what this represents and I don't know the women."
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Japanese family visiting a farm (ddr-densho-259-261)
Unidentified visitors to the Yasui family's farm in Willow Flat, Oregon.
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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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Ten Issei men (ddr-densho-259-327)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "10 Issei men, all in western attire. Location not identified, but there is a handwritten date of 1907 at the top. Around then, Masuo [Yasui] was living in Portland at either the Japanese Methodist Mission or at the home of the Caucasian attorney, for whom he worked as a houseboy."