Following Farsari 's departure from Japan in 1890 , his studio continued to operate and even listed him as proprietor until 1901 , when Tonokura Tsunetarō became the owner . Tonokura , whom Farsari had known since the mid-1870s , had long managed the day-to-day operations of the studio . In 1904 Tonokura left the business to start his own studio and another of Farsari 's former employees , Watanabe Tokutarō , became the new owner , only to be succeeded by the former secretary , Fukagawa Itomaro . The business was finally registered as a Japanese company in 1906 and it continued to operate until at least 1917 and possibly as late as 1923 , the year in which Yokohama was largely destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake . '' A. Farsari & Co. '' was the last notable foreign-owned photographic studio to operate in Japan
Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Adolfo Farsari