Uyenoyama, Shutetsu

Buddhist priest and Japanese language teacher Shutetsu Uyenoyama and family. Kurtistown, Hawaii Island, ca. 1915. Shutetsu Uyenoyama Collection

Last pre-World War II graduating class at Kurtistown Japanese Language School, May 1941. Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (center) with wife Ishi (left), daughter Chizuko (right), and son Ryuzo (back, standing 2nd from right). JCCH/Shutetsu Uyenoyama Collection.

Buddhist priests from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, April 1944. Bottom row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi, Rev. Hozui Nakayama, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Enryo Shigefuji (Fresno, Calif.), Bishop Ninryo Nago, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama, Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Yutetsu Matsui, unknown, unknown, Rev. Doro Kanda. Middle row (L-R): Rev. Dojin Ochi (Los Angeles), Rev. Ryuko Tachibana (Los Angeles, formerly of Hawaii), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri, Rev. Gendo Okawa, Rev. Suijo Kabashima, Rev. Tenran Mori, unknown, Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Hakuai Oda, Rev. Taizen Imamura, Rev. Hosho Kurohira, Rev. Shunjo Shiratori, Rev. Bunpo Kuwatsuki (Los Angeles), unknown, Rev. Shodo Kawamura. Top row (L-R): Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato, Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, unknown, Rev. Kenju Ohtomo, unknown, Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba, Zenko Saigusa, Rev. Kodo Fujitani, Rev. Kenjo Ohara, Rev. Giko Abiko (Calif.), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi, unknown. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

In front of an altar, Santa Fe Internment Camp. 1st Row (L-R): Aisuke Shigekuni (4th), Yoshio Koike (6th). 3rd Row: Josen Deme (2nd), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba (5th), Chikyoku Kikuchi (6th), Rev. Konin Matano (7th), Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (8th); Rev. Hakuai Oda (9th); Rev. Kodo Fujitani (10th). 4th Row: Bishop Ninryo Nago (5th), Rev. Suijo Kabashima (6th), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (8th). 5th Row: Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Rev. Shoho Fujiie (5th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (6th), Rev. Taizen Imamura (7th). Back Row: Koichi Iida (11th), Daizo Sumida (12th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944-45. Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (1st row, 2nd from left). Right table, 1st seated row from right: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd from front), Rev. Hakuai Oda (6th from front), Rev. Josen Deme (7th from front). Minoru Murakami (standing row behind left table: 3rd from front). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection

Wives of Big Island internees. Shige Hirano, wife of Naojiro Hirano, back row, second from the left; Ishi Uyenoyama, wife of Shutetsu Uyenoyama, second row from the bottom, second from left. JCCH/Naomi Hirano-Omizu Collection.