Kentaro Nakamura

"In 1914, at the age of twenty, Nakamura left the port at Yokohama, Japan, by ship and traveled through Honolulu, Hawaii, to San Francisco, on his way to join his father, Toratora, and mother, Tame, and younger sibling, Sei, who was born in California. In 1920, Nakamura worked at a Japanese soup factory, probably owned by his family, and in 1930 he described his occupation as "food products." He married and had two children, Henry and Ruth, taking over his father's residence at 306 North Avenue 22, Los Angeles, about four miles north of Little Tokyo. Nakamura was a charter member of the JCPC and stayed with the club through 1935. He likely is the Kantaro Nakamura who died March 15, 1938 and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery, though he may have returned to Japan."

exerpt from: Dennis Reed. Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920-1940 exh. cat. Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum, 2016.