Four youths engaged in Kendo at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (Nisei Week), Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Four youths engaged in Kendo at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (Nisei Week), Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 2, 1935
- Date
- 1935-08-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Tadao Amemiya may be the same person as Thomas Amemiga, of 2164 W 27th St, Los Angeles, CA, who has the same life dates.
The first year of the Nisei festival was 1934. The term Nisei was used to signify the second generation, or American-born Japanese who were American citizens. The festival is now [2012] known as Nisei Week. In 1935 the second annual Nisei festival included a banquet, fashion shows, an ondo (folk dance), kendo contests, a pageant tracing Japanese history, flower and tea ceremonies and a parade.
Similar photographs appear in the Los Angeles Times. One on 7/22/1935 with the caption: "Nipponese Youths Play Ancient Game, Japanese youths playing the ancient game of kendo which will be a feature of the annual Nisei festival to be held in Los Angeles Japanese colony next August 12 to 17. More than 200 will take part in a mass demonstration." And the second on 8/11/1935, with the caption: "This is Kendo, traditional Japanese fencing. This week in costume, it will be a feature of the nisei festival" (in the article titled: "It's The Nisei Festival, Now").
Harry Andow, Hideuki Yasudo, Yasushi Hara, and Tadao Amemiya engaged in Kendo with their shinai (swords) raised together in one point. They are dressed in kendo uniform, which includes the: men (helmet), keigoki (jacket), do (breastplate), kote (gloves), tare (protects waist and groin), and hakama (trousers).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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