Tonokura Tsunetarō

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Tonokura Tsunetarō was the owner of the A. Farsari & Co. photographic studio. Tonokura, who had known the firm's founder Adolfo Farsari since the 1870s, managed the firm's day-to-day affairs until he become its owner in 1901. Tonokura left A Farsari & Co. in 1904 to start his own studio. A. Farsari & Co. was based in Yokohama, Japan.

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  • Dobson, Sebastian. "Yokohama Shashin". In Art & Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era – Selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: MFA Publications, 2004), 28.