Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka portrait.

Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka portrait.

Description

Title Proper Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka portrait.
Date(s) 1982
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
File consists of one photograph of Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, a portrait made at the time of their fiftieth wedding anniversary in January, 1982.
Name of creator
Jitaro Tanaka was born November 27, 1905 in Shiga prefecture, Japan. His parents Jikichi Tanaka and Akuri Kawasaki had six children. About 1906 Tanaka's father Jikichi immigrated to Canada, coming to Vancouver. Jitaro Tanaka joined his father in Vancouver in 1911, aged five years old. Tanaka's wife to be, Sumiko Suga, was born in Vancouver April 5, 1912. Her parents were Kichitaro Suga and Hatsuyo Uyeno, who had come to Vancouver from Hiroshima; the family eventually numbered fourteen children.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka portrait.
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