| title | Yamake Family collection |
| general material designation | [objects and graphic material and sound recordings] |
| extent | 41 objects and 3 tape cassettes |
| date | 1920-1997 |
| scope and content | The collection consists of baking tools and drawings used by the Yamake Family when they owned a bakery and two interviews of Shirley Omatsu (before Kakutani, nee Yamake). The first discusses her father's shop and the manju making tools that make up this collection. The second interview focuses on Shirley's memories of Powell Street in Vancouver, BC.
(Many of the tools were made by one of the sheet-metal shops in the area: Nishihata's at 457 Powell Street, Akiyama Sheet Metal at 368 Powell Street or BC Hardware on Main Street. Otherwise they were purchased directly from Japan.) |
| biography | Junzo Yamake (father of the donors) owned a bakery called Kasuga-kashiten at 359 Powell Street from the mid 1920s to 1941. |
| number | 1997.9 |
| organisation | Nikkei National Museum |
| access | Open |