| description | A group portrait of the Tashme High School band orchestra taken around the Second World War in Tashme, British Columbia. The image shows a group of twenty Japanese Canadian young men and women, arranged in to two rows. Most of the students are dressed in white shirts and black bottoms, save for the two girls in the middle of the front row, who wear long white dresses, and one boy in the back who wears a suit. The photo was taken indoors, and the students stand on a stage with a painted backdrop of palm trees, and two signs on either side of the stage with "THS" written diagonally on them. The two girls in white dresses are each holding large bouquets of flowers.
In the back row, from left to right, the students are identified as Roy Nishikawa, Yosh Funamoto, Tsutomu Nakayama, Mack Nishiyama, Harry Kumano, Hippo Koyanagi, Tad Kawasaki, Karl Ayukawa, and unidentified.
In the front row, from left to right, the students are identified as Shin Fujino, Hiroshi Shin, Miyoko Nishihata, Sachi Ikeda, Sumi Ota, Miss Naka, Haruko Tanouye, unidentified, Tetsuko Kato, Harold Miwa, and Tom Fujiino.
The students are performing in the school's auditorium, which was once a barn. |