This image is from Bunka Shashin-shu, the magazine published by the Tokyo-based photo group Shashin Bunka Kyokai. The publication was influenced by Stieglitz's Camera Work. The group held regular juried exhibitions that included work by leading Japanese pictorialists of the 1920s. Top selections were published their magazine. There were only three issues: June, August , and September of 1922. This is plate 8 from volume 3. Title on mount. Accompanied by tissue sheet describing technical details. Kumazawa was a photographer from Kobe. Reproduced in "Art Photography in Japan 1920-1940" published by Charles Schwartz Ltd. and Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2003.
