This portrait of an unidentified family, probably Japanese-American, was taken by "Wakasa," probably photographer Kazuo Wakasa, who on the 1940 census was living at 1627 Geary St., San Francisco with his wife and two young children.
The Kazuo Wakasa family in 1940 (highlighted). Source: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K98G-QHM : 27 July 2019), Michio Wakasa in household of Kazuo Wakasa, Assembly District 22, San Francisco, San Francisco City, San Francisco, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-212, sheet 8B, line 56, family 242, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 306.
See also the very brief mention of K. Wakasa in "Making Waves: Japanese-American Photography 1920-1940" from the Japanese American National Museum.
According to other records at FamilySearch, Kazuo, Toshiye Thelma, Keiko Jennie, and Michio Wakasa, family no.30171, were interned at the Rohwer "relocation camp" in McGehee, Desha Co., Arkansas, Kazuo for about a year, and Toshiye and the children for nearly two. Kazuo had been born in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan on 10 October 1901, come to the US in 1919, and married Thelma, who was also from Hiroshima prefecture, in 1932 in San Francisco; she had come to the US in 1922, age 12. Kazuo was granted citizenship in 1957; he died 27 June 1977, in San Mateo, Calif. Thelma died 16 December 2001 in Berkeley.
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