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Collection: Family in Japan (Kishiro and Tomi's families)

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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.

Hikota Yamashita Portrait (aka Sadashige) in Charcoal, circa 1920s.

Kishiro Yamashita commissioned this charcoal portrait of his father before Kishiro's death in 1931. Hikota was born in Naegi, Gifu (add dates).

Kohei Album Page 1a

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.

Kohei Album Page 1b

Dated May 1925. Tomi on a visit to Japan. (Left to rgiht Naotaro, Kimi and Waka, Naotaro's husband)

Kohei Album Page 1c

Kohei Album Page 2

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.

Kohei Album Page 4a

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),…