was a Japanese

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. In 1922, Fuku went to the

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where he worked in the dry goods business in

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. In the mid-1930s, he was very active both in the submission of his photographs to various salons and in photographic circles in Seattle, where he also had a solo exhibition in 1935. He returned to Japan in 1936 and the next year had a solo exhibition in Mitsukoshi department store. From 1940 he taught photography at

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for one year. After

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, Fuku ran a commercial photographic studio in Kyōbashi,

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References

*''Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi 1: Torai kara 1945 made'' () / ''Japanese Photography: Form In/Out 1: From Its Introduction to 1945.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. Text and captions in Japanese and English. Fuku's "At the Dry Dock" (c. 1934) appears on p. 89. * ''Nihon no shashinka'' () / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . *''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers''. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite its alternative English title, in Japanese only. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuku, Mitsutaro Japanese photographers Japanese expatriates in the United States 1898 births 1965 deaths Nihon University alumni Artists from Seattle