| description | Sepia toned outdoor group photograph of fifteen Japanese Canadian adults and one child, standing in a line, in front of wood fence separating playing field from bleachers, with wood bleachers in background; there are also three persons sitting in bleachers at left of photograph wearing full suits, ties, and dress hats. At far left, man with child is wearing full suit and tie, with newsboy cap, hands on child's shoulders; child is wearing a collared shirt, pants, and bucket hat; next to them are six Asahi baseball team members wearing knit button up sweaters with "letter A" on left side of chest, "letter A" baseball caps, and knickerbockers; at centre, there is a person wearing a white collared shirt, pants, and tie, light coloured jacket, and dress hat; next are six more Asahi baseball team members wearing knit button up sweaters with "letter A" on left side of chest, "letter A" baseball caps, and knickerbockers; at far right is a man wearing a light coloured full suit and tie, with dress hat. Item is embossed with "Main Studio; VANCOUVER, B.C." Verso is annotated in pen with "E. Kitagawa" and "Taken June 15th 1919 at Athletic Park, Vancouver B.C."
Identified from left to right are: Tashiro Natsuhara, child Tasaburo Natsuhara, Sotaro Matsumiya, Yutaro Kitagawa, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Tadayoshi Furumoto, Shigeichi Miyasaki, Toragoro Niimi, Sotojiro Matsumiya, Masajiro Yoshioka, Niichi Matoba, Teruma Nagano, Hatujiro Kitagawa, Junji Ito, Eisaburo Eddie Kitagawa, Ihachi Miyazaki. Behind the team are three unidentified men leaning on the edge of the bleachers. |
| history of use | The photo shows Sotojiro Matsumya in the middle who was president of the Vancouver Asahi as well as president of Matsumiya Stores on Powell Street.
Danzo Tanabe was an employee of Matsumiya Stores on Powell street who came from Shiga Pref., particularly same village as Tanaka brothers of the Vancouver Asahi.
Yonetaro Fukai was the writer of the Continental Daily newspaper who was from Gunma Pref.
Tashiro Natsuhara was the owner of the drug store, Taisho-do, in Vancouver, BC. In 1920, Tashiro Natsuhara transferred his drug store business to Ihachi Miyazaki. |