Mitsutarō Fuku

Mitsutarō Fuku (福 光太郎 Fuku Mitsutarō, 18981965) 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.

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