Ogawa Kazumasa
Ogawa Kazumasa | |
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Born | September 29, 1860 |
Died | September 6, 1929 | (aged 68)
Nationality | Japan |
Other names | Ogawa Kazuma, Ogawa Isshin |
Occupation(s) | photographer, printer, and publisher |
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Ogawa Kazumasa (
Life[edit]
Ogawa was born in Saitama to the Matsudaira samurai clan. He started studying English and photography at the age of 15 under Yoshiwara Hideo, then in 1880, he moved to Tokyo in order to further hone his English language skills. One year later, Ogawa was hired as an interpreter in the Yokohama Police Department, while learning photography from Shimooka Renjō in Yokohama.
In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait photography and the dry plate process. He also studied collotype printing in Albert Type Company.
Upon his return to Japan in 1884, Ogawa opened a photographic studio in Iidabashi (Kōjimachi), the first in Tokyo. Four years later, he established the Tsukiji Kampan Seizō Kaisha (
In 1886 he travelled to Seoul in Korea and to Incheon. He photographed scenes of cityscapes, palaces and everyday life. These are uncoloured images and illustrate the progress in his techniques.
Ogawa was a founding member of the Japan Photographic Society, which gathered photography amateurs from all around Japan. In 1891, he was charged with taking 100 pictures of Tokyo's most attractive geisha, to commemorate the opening of the Ryōunkaku.[2]
In 1894, he met the writer Alicia Little who was visiting Japan from her home in China. She was already a published author and she had a diary that she had written. Ogawa supplied photographs and it was published as My Diary in a Chinese Farm. The book described their stay on a farm near the Yangtze River as they avoided the summer heat at their home in Chongqing.[3]
Notes[edit]
- ^ In modern orthography
小川 一真 . - ^ Celebrated Geysha (Geisha) of Tokyo, Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892, Retrieved 10 November 2016
- ^ Charlotte Mathieson (6 October 2015). Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920. Routledge. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-317-31882-8.
External links[edit]
- (in Japanese) A biographical timeline of Ogawa Kazumasa
- A selection of pictures taken by Ogawa
- Flower collotypes by Ogawa
- Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques, "Ogawa Kazuma" (Asia through the Lens). Accessed 20 January 2007.
- QUT Digital Collections