Studio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?

Studio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?

Description

Title Proper Studio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?
Date(s) 1900
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
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.

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Studio Portrait of the Fujiwara Family; Vancouver, BC?
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