T-Enami.org
About Us
Rob Oechsle with 3-D camera and school children in a Tokyo temple ground.
Photo Copyright 2006 Torin Boyd / Polaris Images
Also seen here on flickr, while visiting the USA.
Our Business
I currently dabble in two things :
(1) Selling non-ionic, biodegradable wetting agents for the golf course and horticulture industry. Need wetter water? Drop me a line.
(2) Design and construction of Museum displays.
Ca.1898-1908 Mount Fuji, Lake, and Old Pine.
A Fireman showing off his athletic skills during New Year festivities in Old Japan. From a ca.1898 hand-tinted glass lantern slide by T. Enami.
Who We Are
Oechsle is a Permanent Resident of Japan, and has lived in Okinawa, Japan for over 35 years. Originally sent there with the US Army as a Pharmacy Technician during the Vietnam War, he remained in Okinawa after the end of that conflict.
Besides marrying a local girl and raising three daughters there, he had too many irons in the fire -- including fifteen years as a professional photographer while writing and teaching history on the side.
Before there was a Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, or the JCII Photo Salon, he had already produced three major "History of Photography" Exhibitions, and several minor traveling shows.
In 1987, he published a comprehensive collection of Western Art depicting Okinawa that went through four editions; and more recently, an advanced English Conversation guide.
He once asked the United States Park Service if they would cut a big hole into the Washington Monument in order to accommodate a large slab of coral rock from Okinawa to be placed into it. They said yes, and that's exactly what happened.
Other vain and embarrassing pursuits will not be mentioned. He is currently spending some time in the USA working on the construction and outfitting of a local history museum.
Stereo-photography, and the history of Japanese photography in general has been an active hobby during all of his years in Okinawa. These interests are what led him, along with others, to dig for answers about the once enigmatic T. Enami -- Japan's greatest stereo-photographer.
In the end, as this small Website clearly shows, Enami and the work he produced turned out to be a much bigger (and surprising) story than just a few dog-eared stereoviews.
