UUM_P1457.xml Kunio Yamada digital photograph collection Yamada (Kunio) digital photograph collection Finding aid created by Claire A. Kempa. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

2022 (last modified: 2025)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-12. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Kunio Yamada digital photograph collection Yamada, Kunio P1457 8 digital images 1920-1940 Isotaro and Misao Hashimoto Yamada were immigrants from Japan who settled in the area of Pocatello, Idaho in the early twentieth century. Kunio Yamada digital photograph collection contains digitized black-and-white photographs of the Yamada family at work on a farm and participating in Japanese dancing. English

Isotaro and Misao Hashimoto Yamada were immigrants from Japan who settled in Idaho in the early twentieth century. Together, they had six children: Hidoshi "Mike" Yamada, Jiro Yamada, Miyo Yamada Fuji, Natsuyo Yamada "Natch" Tominaga, Toshiko Yamada "Toshi" Higashi, and Kunio Yamada. The Yamadas lived in what is now the Pocatello metropolitan area, first opening a restaurant in McCammon, Idaho, in the early 1920s. They later moved to Tyhee, where they had a farm where they grew cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and other produce. The family farm, T.M. Yamada, or T.M.Y. Vegetable Gardens, was located between Alameda and Pole Line Road, near what is now Cahoon Avenue, in Pocatello, Idaho.

The Kunio Yamada digital photograph collection contains 8 digital only black-and-white images of the Yamada family and the Japanese American community in Idaho dating from approximately 1920 to 1940.

The original images were loaned to the library and were scanned and then returned to the donor. These images are available online. The image files can be requested, but the library no longer has the original images.

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Permission to publish material from the Kunio Yamada digital photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

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Donated by Kunio Yamada in 2007.

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Forms part of the Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archives.

See also the Isotaro and Misao Yamada photograph collection (P1994).

 Yamada, Kunio--Photographs Yamada, Kunio--Family--Photographs Japanese Americans--Idaho--Photographs Japanese Americans--Clothing--Photographs Japanese Americans--Agriculture--Idaho--Photographs Japanese American farmers--Idaho--Photographs Japanese Americans--Social life and customs--20th century--Photographs Soldiers--Japan--20th century--Photographs Japan--Armed Forces--20th century--Photographs Photographs digital images T. M. Yamada Vegatable Gardens, Japanese Dance 1 1

1 : Five women in traditional Japanese dress posing with fans in front of a painted backdrop during an annual Fukiyose Kai festival in Pocatello. From left to right is Mary Nishizaki Yoden, Aiko Sato Yokomizo, Sumi Kanomata, Misao Kawamura Okamura, Kimi Okamura Takechi. The back of the photo has the original caption "Kunio Yamada, Kimi Okamuro (Takechi), Misao Kawamura (Okamura), Sumi Kanomata (Center), Akiko Satp, Mary Nishizaki (Yoden), Toshi Hagashi, 1226 Jensen." 2 : Fifteen girls posing in traditional Japanese dress posing with fans in front of a painted backdrop during an annual Fukiyose Kai festival in Pocatello. From left to right in the back row are Minnie Okamura Maruji-Adams, Mary Ueda, Sumiko Andow Masaoka, Sachia Kawamura, Mae Kanomata Endow, and Ueda. From left to sight in the middle row are Marie Sato Proctor, Ayako Tsu Kamoto Konma, Amy Kawamura Miyawaki, Yuri Okamura Sasaki, and Toshi Yamada Higashi. From left to right in the front row is Masako Tsukamoto Endow, Lucy Udea, Merrie Yokoto, Chiyeku Akiyama Mgeda. The back of the photo has the original caption "Kunio Yamada, Top row - Minnie Okamura (Maruji-Adams), Mary Ueda (California), Sumiko Andow (Masaoka), Sachia Kawamura, Mae Kanomata (Endow), and Ueda - California; Middle row - Marie Proctor (Sato), Ayako Tsukamoto (Konma), Amy Kawamura (Miyawaki), Yuri Okamura (Sasaki), and Toshi Yamada (Higashi); Front row - Masako Tsukamoto (Endow), Lucy Udea, Merrie Yokoto, Chiyeku Akiyama Mgeda." 3 : Six people posing in traditional Japanese dress while holding plates. From left to right is Mr. Yamashita, Miyo Yamada Fujii (Larry),Mae Kanomato Endow (Kazuo), Yoneko Kawamura Watanabe (Harry), Yuki Yamamoto Kunitsugu (Teruo), Toshi Tsukumoto Yamada (Ted), and Susie Sumida S. 4 : Shintani posing for a portrait dressed in a military uniform with four medals. He served in the Japanese army. 5 : Isotaro Yamada driving a new tractor on his Idaho farm, most likely in Tyhee on the family farm (T.M.Y. Vegetable Gardens). An unidentified man watches from a distance. 6 : The Yamada family posing at the T.M.Y. Vegetable Garden on Alameda Rode and Poleline Road (now Cahoon Street) in Idaho, 1923. From left to right is Mike Yamada, Isotaro Yamada, Miyo Yamada, Grandma Yamada, Toshi, and seven unidentified figures. 7 : T.M.Y. Vegetable Garden on Alameda Rode and Poleline Road (now Cahoon Street) in Idaho, 1923 8 : T.M.Y. Vegetable Garden on Alameda Rode and Poleline Road (now Cahoon Street) in Idaho, 1923. From left to right is Toshi Yamada Higashi, Myio Yamada Fuji, Natasha Yamada Tominaga, Isatoro Yamada, Jiro Yamada, five unidentified people, and Mrs. Misao Yamada.