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[Holiday issues of Rafu Shimpo, California, December 1955 and January 1956]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.587
Description5 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo supplement, December 21, 1955 (negs 4-5) and January 1, 1956 (negs 1-3), Japanese section.;Young Judoist Hiroshi Inoue of Southwest Dojo, and Americans learning Japanese dance for the 1956 New Year issue of Rafu Shimpo, Los Angeles, California, December 1955; and a minister's wife, Rhonda Iroya for the 1955 holiday issue of Rafu Shimpo, California, December 1955.
1N-2N: Part of a series on new faces, Hiroshi Inoue of Forshay Junior High School, in Judo gi grapples with another boy on Judo mat in a studio filled with other boys practicing Judo in Gardena, California.
3N: Part of a series on Americans with Japanese hobbies, Japanese woman instructs two Caucasian women in Japanese dance in a livingroom; one stands with tenegui and the other kneels with a fan. All wear kimono. Karen Lee Kerry studies dance under Harunobu Azuma at the Azuma school of Japanese dance.
4N-5N: Rhonda Nishimura Iroya, wife of Long Beach Japanese Presbyterian Church minister Nicholas Iroya, and toddler daughter, Susan, in play room and reading a book on a couch. The 18 month girl wears white dress, sweater and shoes. Mother wears a patterned dress and eyeglasses.
1N-2N: Part of a series on new faces, Hiroshi Inoue of Forshay Junior High School, in Judo gi grapples with another boy on Judo mat in a studio filled with other boys practicing Judo in Gardena, California.
3N: Part of a series on Americans with Japanese hobbies, Japanese woman instructs two Caucasian women in Japanese dance in a livingroom; one stands with tenegui and the other kneels with a fan. All wear kimono. Karen Lee Kerry studies dance under Harunobu Azuma at the Azuma school of Japanese dance.
4N-5N: Rhonda Nishimura Iroya, wife of Long Beach Japanese Presbyterian Church minister Nicholas Iroya, and toddler daughter, Susan, in play room and reading a book on a couch. The 18 month girl wears white dress, sweater and shoes. Mother wears a patterned dress and eyeglasses.
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Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
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