A Kimono-Clad Group Portrait with Minako Hirotsu; Slocan, BC

A Kimono-Clad Group Portrait with Minako Hirotsu; Slocan, BC

Description

Title Proper A Group Portrait of girls in kimono with Minako Hirotsu; Slocan, BC
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
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Scope and content
A portrait of eleven girls wearing kimono and make-up and one woman posing outdoors in front of a wood garden fence with a large mountain in the background. At the bottom and on the side are captions in Kanji. On the reverse it reads, "Minako, 1st from left. You can't see Yuki good."
Name of creator
Jusuke Ishikawa was born Sept 10, 1867 in Ihonosho, Yamaguchi, Japan. He came to Canada in 1899. In 1909 he spent $75.00 on his first installment of land in Port Hammond where he had a logging crew. Eventually he cleared the land and had a strawberry farm. He married Tame Hirotsu after buying rings from Birks in 1909.
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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A Kimono-Clad Group Portrait with Minako Hirotsu; Slocan, BC
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