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Title
Honey buckets at Shimonoseki City
Date Created and/or Issued
1947-1950
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Photographed are honey buckets loaded on carts in front of buildings in Shimonoseki, Japan. The captions read: "Honey buckets at Shimonoseki City," and "honey buckets, Shimonoseki" The building signs captured in the photo include "みなとホテル [= Minato Hotel]," "金沢商会朝鮮衣服店 [= Kanazawa Traiding Co. Korean Clothing Store]," "ヒカリ洋品支店 [= Hikari Men's Shop]," and "東京ハット [Tokio Hat]." Title from caption. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600).
The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 3 x 4.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
nao_04_006_002
csudh_nao_0616
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/35219
Subject
Japan--Post-World War II
Place
Shimonoseki-shi, Japan
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8jm2hrh/
George and Mitzi Naohara Papers

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