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[Matasuke Toyama, Sentaro Ginoza, and Sentaro Toyama singing and playing sanshin, 1939]
[Matasuke Toyama, Sentaro Ginoza, and Sentaro Toyama singing and playing sanshin, 1939]
[Matasuke Toyama, Sentaro Ginoza, and Sentaro Toyama singing and playing sanshin, 1939]

[Matasuke Toyama, Sentaro Ginoza, and Sentaro Toyama singing and playing sanshin, 1939]

Date1939
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of Thomas T. Toyama
Object number98.89.3
DescriptionPortrait of three men, Matasuke Toyama, Sentaro Ginoza and Sentaro Toyama, singing and playing sanshin on a path, 1939. Matsutake stands in black coat with his hands clasped in front of him as he raises his head to sing. Ginoza stands in plaid shirt playing sanshin, Okinawan stringed instrument, while singing. Mustached Sentaro Toyama stands at right with hands at sides. Path extends into background, shadows of other people out of frame visible on ground. Wooden building with stove pipe in background left.;1 copy negative : b&w

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