Fujiwara Family collection

Fujiwara Family collection

Description

Title Proper Fujiwara Family collection
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1900–1991
General material designation
From this fonds, LOI has digitized 24 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
The collection consists of two series belonging to the Fujiwara family. The first series belongs to the patriarch of the family, Shuzo Fujiwara and mainly consists of items and photographs acquired during his time as a professional photographer. The second series belongs to both Shuzo's son Yoshiyuki Fujiwara and Yoshiyuki's wife Mariko Fujiwara (nee Ohara) and is mainly comprised of a photograph album commemorating the 1991 Lemon Creek Reunion as well as a pattern drawing book.
Name of creator
Shuzo Fujiwara was born in Koura mura, Kashima gun, Okayama ken in Japan. He travelled to Nagasaki to study photographic techniques from a master of portrait photography, Uyeno Hikoma (1838-1904). The studio of Hikoma and Simooka Renjo was amongst the first to open in Japan and known to have trained a large number of new photographers.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum

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Fujiwara Family collection
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.