Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC
Description
Title Proper | Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1943 |
General material designation |
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
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Scope and content |
This image depicts ten women gathered around a table. From the back to the front on
the left hand side of the photograph are: Tahara, Tomihiro, Taguchi, Hatsua, Iida,
and Okubo. From the back to front on the right hand side of the photograph are: Takashima,
Ueda, Tahara, and Kawata. On the left of the photo are the women, wearing dresses;
on the right side of the photo are young girls, wearing dresses and bows. On the table
is laid out covered dishes of food, and teacups placed upside down.
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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
Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC
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