According to Sus' writing on the box, Kishiro asked for these portraits to be drawn. Ken think Sus retrieved them in Naegi on one of this trips to Japan. Since Kishiro died in 1931, the portraits of his parents must have been made before then.
Dated 1914 on photograph.Left to right: Kohei (born 3.12.1903), Susumu (born 3.21.1905) and Kimi (born 8.8.1902). Kohei Yamashita is Susumu and Kimi's cousin (Kishiro's older brother Naotaro's son). Information confirmed by Yasuo Yabashi.
Waka and Naotaro Yamashita (parents left to right seated), and their kids (left to right) Kohei (born March 12 1903), Jiro (standing, born September 9, 1907) and Saburo (seated, born Aug 22m 1909). Information from Yasuo Yabashi.
This is a formal portrait of the Kameyama Family which the Yamashita family had married into in 1835 (Kishiro's father aunt, Mine Yamashita (1820-1902).Back row from left to right: Kokichi Kameyama Yabashi (1919-2016, Mine's great great grandchild),…