Ogawa Kazumasa
Ogawa Kazumasa | |
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小川 一眞 | |
Hiratsuka, Kanagawa | |
Nationality | Japan |
Other names | Ogawa Kazuma, Ogawa Isshin |
Occupation(s) | photographer, printer, and publisher |
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Ogawa Kazumasa (小川 一眞
Life
Ogawa was born in
In 1882, he moved to
Upon his return to Japan in 1884, Ogawa opened a photographic studio in
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
- ^ In modern orthography 小川 一真.
- ^ Celebrated Geysha (Geisha) of Tokyo, Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892, Retrieved 10 November 2016
- ISBN 978-1-317-31882-8.
External links
- (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