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Description
A real photo postcard capturing Toshiko Sakai's friend, Tamiko Tokunaga. It was taken in 1932 when Tamiko graduated from high school. The handwritten notes on the front reads: Dear Miss Toshiko Sakai, your friend, Tamiko Tokunaga, '32. The caption reads: Tamiko Tokunaga high 1932 school graduation [at age] 17. The handwritten notes in Japanese on the backside read: Showa 7-nen [1932], 16-sai [16 years old]. This photograph is found on page 3 of "Yetsuko Kiyomi photo album" (csudh_yet_0001). Contains a family photo album compiled by Yetsuko Kiyomi, who is a Kibei Nisei born to Japanese immigrant parents, Misaburo and Sayo Sakai, and raised in the Japanese farming community in the town of Holland, Clarksburg, Yolo County, California. She returned to Kumamoto, Japan where she was educated and resided from pre-war through post-war, and sailed back to the U.S. and married to Genjiro Kiyomi in 1957. The included photographs depict her life in two countries, the U.S. and Japan. Additional materials in the collection include: a group photograph of her 6th grade Mifune Elementary School, her mother's side family trees, and her husband's biographical information.
Type
image
Format
Photographs; Postcards; Albums black and white; handwritten image/jpeg
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