T. Enami

Born in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Bakumatsu era, Enami was first a student of, and then an assistant to the well known photographer and collotypist, Ogawa Kazumasa.

After his death at age 70 in 1929, his first son Tamotsu took over the studio until it was once again demolished in 1945 by the Allied bombing of Yokohama during World War II.

Terry Bennett, in his book Photography in Japan 1853–1912[2] offered interesting commentary concerning the "father or son" attribution problem.

[4][5] Philbert Ono of PhotoGuide Japan[6] has also speculated on the possibility that T. Enami intentionally named his son with a leading T in the hope that he would someday take over the studio.

Perhaps the greatest posthumous honor conferred on Enami was the selection of one of his images to be the sole inset-photograph appearing on the first-edition cover of the monumental Odyssey, The Art of Photography at National Geographic.