Juan José de Jesús Yas

Juan José de Jesús Yas (1846 - 1917), born Kohei Yasu, was a Japanese-born photographer who established himself in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala and documented the city toward the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.

Juan José de Jesús Yas
Yas in the 1890s.
Born	1846 Fujisawa, Iwate, Japan
Died	1917 Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Occupation(s)	Photographer and translator

Biography

Yas and his wife on their wedding day.

Yas arrived to Guatemala as translator of the famous Mexican astronomer Covarrubias and he liked photography so much, that he became a student of German professor Herbruger.

Death

Died in Antigua Guatemala in 1917.

See also

• Alberto G. Valdeavellano
• Antigua Guatemala

Notes and references

References

• Escobar, José Luis (18 June 2017). "El legado fotográfico de Juan José de Jesús Yas". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2018.

External links

• Media related to Juan José de Jesús Yas photographs at Wikimedia Commons