Outdoor Group Wedding Portrait of Minoru Kaiura and Sadako Harafuji; Tashme, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image depicts the wedding party in two rows and in formal attire. From the bottom left to the upper right they are: Mr. and Mrs. Tomihiro, Mr. and Mrs. Kaiura, Fumiko Kawata, Mr. and Mrs. Kawata, Kaura, S. Harfuji, T. Harafuji, and Mr. and Mrs. Harafuji. The women are dressed in dark dresses and have flowers affixed to their right chests. The men are all dressed in dark three piece suits and ties with flowers affixed to their right chests. In the center are the bride and groom, Sadako is dressed in white and is holding a bouquet of white flowers with white flowers in her hair. Fumiko is wearing a button up dress suit and blazer.

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.