Arinobu Fukuhara

Arinobu was the father of photographers Rosō Fukuhara (福原 路草, Fukuhara Rosō; 1892–1946), Shinzō Fukuhara (福原 信三, Fukuhara Shinzō; 1883–1948) and Nobuyushi Fukuhara (福原 信義, Fukuhara Nobuyushi; 1897–1958), who would gain fame as Tōru Namiki (並木 透, Namiki Tōru). His sons became quintessential mobo, or "modern boys"—the sobriquet coined to describe the young, sophisticated, up-to-date young men who frequented the fashionable Ginza district in the late 1920s—and they shared a fascination and persistent attraction to photography as an art form. The Fukuharas helped to bring photography into the mainstream of Japanese modernism. The two brothers were founding organizers of the Japan Photographic Society (日本写真会, Nihon Shashinkai) in 1924; and Shinzō was its first president. The organization was a major pre-war influence on Japanese photography and still exists today despite a temporary dissolution during the years of the Pacific War.

His grandson, olympic alpine skier, Yoshiharu Fukuhara (福原義春, Fukuhara Yoshiharu; 1931–) continues this family tradition of fostering the development of Japanese photography. He has been director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since his appointment by Tokyo Governor Shintarō Ishihara in 2000.