Studio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?

DescriptionTitle ProperStudio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?Date(s) of material from this resource digitized1900General material designation

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Scope and content

The image shows a studio portrait of a two women and three men in two rows. In the back row they are from left to right, Takako Fujiwara and Hiroko Fujiwara. In the front row from left to right they are Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Shuzo Fujiwara and Toshiyuki (Yoshiyuki's fraternal twin) Fujiwara.

Name of creator

Shuzo Fujiwara was born in Koura mura, Kashima gun, Okayama ken in Japan. He travelled to Nagasaki to study photographic techniques from a master of portrait photography, Uyeno Hikoma (1838-1904). The studio of Hikoma and Simooka Renjo was amongst the first to open in Japan and known to have trained a large number of new photographers.

Immediate source of acquisition

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized in full.