Mitsutarō Fuku (福 光太郎, Fuku Mitsutarō, 1898–1965) was a Japanese
photographer.
In 1922, Fuku went to the
United States where he worked in the
dry goods business in
Seattle. 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
Nihon University for one year. After
World War II, Fuku ran a commercial photographic studio in
Kyōbashi,
Tokyo.
References
Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi 1: Torai kara 1945 made (日本の写真 内なるかたち・外なるかたち 1 渡来から1945まで) / 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. (in Japanese)
Nihon no shashinka (日本の写真家) / Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005.
ISBN4-8169-1948-1. (in Japanese)
Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.
ISBN4-473-01750-8. Despite its alternative English title, in Japanese only. (in Japanese)