titleAsahi baseball team; Vancouver, BC ; 1915

 

namePhotograph

 

date1915

 

descriptionSepia toned indoor studio group portrait photograph, printed as a postcard, of thirteen Japanese Canadians; ten young men dressed in Asahi team uniform, including letter "A" caps and jerseys; and three men dressed in suits and ties, also wearing hats. There is baseball equipment on the floor in front of the group, including two baseball bats, gloves, and a catcher's face mask. Verso is annotated in pencil with Japanese text. Recto is annotated in pencil with "1915."

 


 

Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are: Takeo Asai; Shuichi Fukunaga; Matsujiro Miyasaki; and Kinzaburo Fukunaga.

 


 

Pictured in the middle row, from left to right, are: Yozaemon Kondo; Tom Matoba; [Suekichi Kodama]; Mickey Kitagawa; and [Ken Suzuki].

 


 

Pictured in the front row, from left to right, are: Gaichi/Kaichi Tabata; Teddy Furumoto; Yo Horii; and Shoichi Shima.

 

part ofEd and Muriel Kitagawa Collection
number2010.30.1.1.52

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
accessOpen