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Title
Bunzo Asoo and Haruye Fujiwara wedding photograph
Creator
Hara Shashinkan: photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1919-09-22
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Photograph of the 1919 marriage of Bunzo Asoo and Haruye Fujiwara in Okayama. L to R: ____, Grandmother (paternal?), Bunzo, Haruye.
Bunzo Asoo was born in 1897 in Hiroshima, Japan. Haruye Asoo was born in 1982 in Okinawa, Japan. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and helped his father on a farm in Vorden, California. In 1915, Bunzo went to an English language school in San Francisco. In 1920, he returned to Japan for an arranged marriage with Haruye. They had seven children. They farmed in the Sacramento area during the 1920s and 30. In May 1942, the family was forced to evacuate to Arboga Assembly Center, then to Tule Lake and Topaz Relocation Centers. The Asoo's returned to Sacramento in 1945, where Bunzo became a landscape gardener.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 10.25 x 7.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
sac_fugi_0006
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/58178
Language
English
Japanese
Subject
Identity and values--Family
Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Men
Identity and values--Women
Japan--Pre-World War II
Place
Okayama, Japan
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Asoo and Fujiwara Families Collection

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