| description | This image depicts ten members of the Heike family, father and mother with their seven sons and one daughter, arranged in two rows in front of their house at Tashme. Seated on a bench in the first row, from the left, is Munihara in a vest, tie, and dress shirt and pants with his left hand on his hip. Seated beside him is a young boy, Norm (Norio) wearing a striped t-shirt and shorts. Next to him is a young girl, Judy (Yuriko) (married name Shintani) in a dress and jacket, held against her mother Tsuta’s side. Tsuta has her right arm around the Judy’s waist and is wearing a dress and sweater. On the end of the bench near the right edge of the photograph are two more boys John & Tom (Tatsuo), the one on the rightmost edge is wearing glasses. The second row consists of four young men standing in collared shirts, Harold (Haruo), Makio, Yukio, Akio Heike. |