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Image credits

The photographs on this site are either our own or public-domain images from public collections. Each image carries a short credit where it appears.

  • Portrait of Mitsuru Otaka: our own photo.
  • The Otaka family grave, rice fields, a village shrine, rice fields in Senboku District and the Akita Kantō Festival, all in Akita Prefecture: photos by Mitsuru Otaka.
  • A Japanese government file of 1888 (Meiji 21) on emigrants to Hawaii: National Archives of Japan, Kōbun ruishū (the cabinet's bound record books), call number 類00345100 (cropped).
  • Japanese workers on a fruit farm in California, around 1910: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-12867 (cropped).
  • Honolulu seen from Punchbowl; the torii of the Izumo shrine in Honolulu; the launch of a Japanese fishing boat in Honolulu: ホノルゝ繁昌記 (A Record of Prosperous Honolulu), 1911. National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (cropped).
  • An apple orchard in Aomori Prefecture: 青森県写真帖 (Photo Album of Aomori Prefecture), 1915. National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (cropped).
  • Japanese women and men in Hawaii, about 1910: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-41425 (cropped). The page of a 1922 directory of Japanese in America on our Village Finder page: 在米日本人人名辞典, National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (cropped).
  • A page of statistics on Japanese residents of Hawaii: 布哇日本人年鑑 第18回 (Hawaiian-Japanese Annual, 18th edition), Honolulu, 1922. National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (cropped).
  • Rice ready for harvest; a stone torii in a cedar forest; old stone lanterns; red torii at Hanazono Inari Shrine, Tokyo: photos by Mitsuru Otaka.
  • Color woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige from 六十余州名所図会 (Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces), 1853–1856: Sarashina in Shinano, Rakan-ji in Buzen and Aburatsu in Hyūga. National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (cropped to the printed image).
  • Kyushu and Shikoku: 大日本國全圖 (Complete Map of Great Japan), 19th century, color-printed. National Diet Library Digital Collections, public domain (detail, rotated so north is up).
  • The photograph in our sample Document Reading: National Diet Library, Akamatsu Noriyoshi Papers, public domain.

The National Diet Library states that public-domain items in its Digital Collections may be reused without permission, with credit.