An Outdoor Portrait of Akio and Fumiko Kawata, Cumberland BC
Description
| Title Proper | An Outdoor Portrait of Akio and Fumiko Kawata, Cumberland BC |
| Date(s) | 1939 |
| General material designation |
This item contains a textual record.
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| Scope and content |
This image consists of two children, one boy and one girl. The boy, Akio Kawata, stands
on the left in front of a wood fence. The girl, Fumiko Kawata, is placed on a wooden
chair, dressed in a kimono.
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| Name of creator |
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.
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| Immediate source of acquisition |
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.
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Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection |
| Series | Photographs |
| File | Digital Images |
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Title
An Outdoor Portrait of Akio and Fumiko Kawata, Cumberland BC
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