Tamamura Kōzaburō
Tamamura • Illustration — Image of Tamamura Kozaburo Tamamura Kōzaburō (玉村 康三郎) (1856—1923?) was a Japanese photographer. In 1874 he opened a photographic studio in Asakusa, Tokyo and subsequently moved to Yokohama in 1883, opening his most successful studio. He was an originator of the Yokohama shashin photographic scene.
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Tamamura Kōzaburō

Tamamura Kōzabūro · Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek https: id.smb.museum/object/1441867 · Public domain
- Born
- 1856 · Edo.
- Died
- 1923
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Tamamura • Illustration — Image of Tamamura Kozaburo Tamamura Kōzaburō (玉村 康三郎) (1856—1923?) was a Japanese photographer. In 1874 he opened a photographic studio in Asakusa, Tokyo and subsequently moved to Yokohama in 1883, opening his most successful studio. He was an originator of the Yokohama shashin photographic scene.
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Born at Edo in 1856, died in 1923.
The recorded working language is Japanese. Work by Tamamura Kōzaburō is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Netherlands Photo Museum, National Museum of World Cultures, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and Photography Collection.

Ellen Ferguson and Augusta Quigley, Yokohama, Japan, c. 1890, by Kozaburo Tamamura, vintage albumen print, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 2196
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1856
Tamamura Kōzaburō was born in 1856 at Edo.
1923
Tamamura Kōzaburō died.
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