Tamoto Kenzō

Tamoto Kenzō (田本 研造, 1832–1912) was a Japanese photographer.

[1] Tamoto was born in Kumano, in the Mie Prefecture of Honshu.

In 1859, he relocated to Hakodate, where he lost a foot due to frostbite.

Tamoto took photographs of military leaders Enomoto Takeaki and Hijikata Toshizō during the Battle of Hakodate between 1868 and 1869.

Starting in 1871, he documented the improvements to infrastructure in the Hokkaido region, eventually presenting 158 photographs of the process to the Settlement Office.