An Outdoor Group Photograph of Men Eating

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image depicts a group of four from, from left to right: G. Minato, Matsui, W. Miyahara, and G. Okui. Minato is looking at the camera, straddling the side of a wall, holding chopsticks in his right hand. Minato is wearing a white collared shirt, light pants, and a hat. Matsui is second from the left, is seated, holding chopsticks in his right hand with food on them. Matsui is wearing a white collared shirt with rolled sleeves, light pants, and a hat. Miyahara is the second from the right and seated holding chopsticks in his right hand. He is wearing a dark long-sleeved shirt, dark pants, and a baseball cap. Okui is seated with chopsticks in his right hand. Okui is wearing a white work shirt, light pants, and a hand. The men are sitting in what might be a boat, gathered around a communal dish of food.

Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized in full.