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[Shigeru Nakamura, Consul General of Japan, holding Japanese kites, California, March 6, 1957]
[Shigeru Nakamura, Consul General of Japan, holding Japanese kites, California, March 6, 1957]
[Shigeru Nakamura, Consul General of Japan, holding Japanese kites, California, March 6, 1957]

[Shigeru Nakamura, Consul General of Japan, holding Japanese kites, California, March 6, 1957]

Date1957
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.420
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, reversed, March 1957.;Smiling man in suit, Shigeru Nakamura, the Consul General of Japan, holds two kites to be displayed at the weeklong Japan Festival held in Riverside, California on March 23-29, taken March 6, 1957. Nakamura holds a small kite in the shape of warrior in his proper left hand and a rectangular kite of a crane flying over waves in his proper right. Four other kites are propped up on furniture beside him. Landscape poster in background.

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