Yamada family wedding (Yamada_10)

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

This brief black-and-white segment, from the late 1930s, shows a Yamada family wedding at the Nichiren Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles (00:21); guests outside the temple shower the bride and groom with rice as they exit and get into a waiting car.

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.