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[New Fujiya Hotel women president from Japan at reception in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, March 11, 1964]
[New Fujiya Hotel women president from Japan at reception in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, March 11, 1964]
[New Fujiya Hotel women president from Japan at reception in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, March 11, 1964]

[New Fujiya Hotel women president from Japan at reception in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, March 11, 1964]

Date1964
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.815
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, March 12, 1964.;Fujiya Hotel president, Hisako Shotani, and travel writer, Ayako Totsuka, at a reception in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, March 11, 1964. Both women wear elaborate kimonos and name tags as they stand in a corner. Dressed in bird and wave design kimono with hair upswept, Shotani stands at right holding a clutch purse. Totsuka wears a floral design kimono with her hair tucked behind her ears.

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