Kōtarō Tanaka

was a Japanese amateur photographer particularly noted for his photography of Osaka and his use of color.

Tanaka was born in Ise, Mie (Japan) in 1901.

From 1932 onwards he participated in a variety of amateur photography groups. From 1948 he worked in the Osaka office of Asahi Shinbun publishing company.

From 1955, Tanaka worked to photograph Kawachi in Osaka, in a series titled Kawachi Fūdoki . In 1962 he started photographing firework displays in color (then still unusual for such purposes), with his camera attached to his moving body.

Starting in the seventies, Tanaka won a series of awards for his long service to amateur photography in the Kansai area. He died on 7 November 1995.

Collections of works by Tanaka Yume sen'ya . Osaka: Village Press, 1990. Shamo to renkon hatake: Nihon no genfūkei Kawachi . Kyoto: Kōrinsha, 1993. Kōseki mange . Tokyo: Tanaka Kōtarō Sakuhinshū Iinkai, 1996. Shikisai kōkyōgaku ). Bee Books 239. Tokyo: Mitsumura, 1996. .