title17th graduating class, Vancouver Japanese Language School; 439 Alexander St.; Vancouver, BC

 

namePhotograph

 

date1923

 

descriptionStudents posing in a class photograph. Back L-R: [unidentified], [unidentified], Sentaro Uchida, Matsumiya, Yataro Arikado, Mohei Sato, [unidentified], Yaju Fukui, [unidentified]. Fourth row L-R: Kokaji, [unidentified], Hanako Sato, Tsutae Sato, [unidentified], Iizuka, Kubodera, [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified]. Third row L-R: [unidentified], Ken Shiomi, Genji Hayashi, Shigeru Sato, Satoshi Nakamura, [unidentified], Shizuko Matsuno, [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], Setsuko Nakamura, [unidentified], Uchida. Second row L-R: Tadayoshi Naruse, Hayami, [unidentified], [unidentified], Kato Kenno, Akiko Nakamura, [unidentified], Eiko Maikawa, Fukuyama, [unidentified], [unidentified], Hiramatsu, [unidentified], [unidentified], Shiomi, [unidentified], [unidentified]. Front row L-R: [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], Hajime Inouye, Ernie Arikado, Jubo, Sekine, [unidentified], Sadao Maikawa, Izumi, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Kiyo Mizuno, Yujiro Korenaga, T. Izumi, Geo J. Korenaga, [unidentified].

 

history of use

 

Japanese translation on the front of the photo: Vancouver Japanese Language school, 17th graduation, Taisho year 12, March 30, 1923.

 

There is a corresponding student list of that year in the Sato fonds 1996.170.08 MS 100 in the folder named 'list of Graduate students of Japanese Language school from 1907-1949'.

 

Hisayo Ikeda was identified by researcher Ura Kondo on Dec 20, 2012 as #29 in the photo (5th girl from the right in the third row).

 

The old Japanese Language school was rennovated in 1928.

 

part ofKen and Rose Kutsukake collection
number1994.70.1.a-b

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
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