Issei
ISSEI Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers Created in 1980 by Japanese photographer Hiroyuki “Tora” Inoue, these portraits capture New York’s Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants whose lives helped shape the city’s Japanese community but often remained unseen. Nearly forty-five years later, most of this remarkable body of work is now brought […]
Kinichi Iwamoto (1895–1994)
Gensuke Yoshida (1897–1984)
Haru Kishi (1904–2002)
Ippei Shimizu (1899–1985)
Tatsuji Shiotani (1897–1995)
Kyoko Takeda (1898-?)
Kikue Tanaka (1900–1987)
Hiroshi Matsuo (1896–1996)
Naohiro Sasaki (1905–1990)
