A collection of 120 photographs taken by a Japanese photographer prominent in New York in the early 20th century has been found in his nephew's house in Saitama Prefecture.
Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), who lived in New York for about 30 years from 1901, was a successful photographer known for portraits of such world-class artists as dancer Isadora Duncan, who pioneered modern dance, and Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, according to Taro Nishijima, a curator at Matsue History Museum who has studied the pictures.
The photos found recently include portraits of Adm. Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934), hero of the Battle of Tsushima Strait in the Russo-Japanese War; Sessue Hayakawa (1889-1973), the first Japanese actor to star in Hollywood; and Mary Darges, wife of famed bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), who was Hori's good friend.