Yamada family wedding (Yamada_08)

Color and black-and-white films, ca. 1930s-1960s, of activities of the Yamada family in Los Angeles, California.

This black-and-white segment, from the late 1930s, shows a Yamada family wedding at the Nichiren Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles (02:09); the wedding party, including small children dressed in chigo costume, assembles for photographs.

Credits: Yamada Family Collection, Gift of Tsuneko Yamada, Japanese American National Museum (2005.104.1). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.