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Asahi Camera
was a Japanese monthly photographic magazine, published from April 1926 until July 2020, when it was discontinued due to declining circulation. History and profile The first issue was that for April 1926.During the twentieth century, Japanese monthly magazines routinely came out in the month before the cover date, or even the month before that. It was from the outset published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper ''Asahi Shinbun.'' The headquarters was in Tokyo. From the January 1941 issue, it merged with the magazines ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'' (, "Technique Photograph Studies") and ''Shōzō Shashin Kenkyū'' (, "Portrait Photograph Studies"). Publication was suspended with the April 1942 issue. Publication resumed after the Second World War with the October 1949 issue. Its cover employed a monochrome portrait of a girl by Ihei Kimura, who would become a major contributor. ''Asahi Camera'' attempted to satisfy interests in all areas of photography, with short p ...
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ...
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Nippon Camera
is a Japanese photography magazine, published between 1950 and 2021. ''Nippon Camera'' started in March 1950 as a bimonthly magazine, published by Kōgeisha (Tokyo) as the successor to the book series ''Amachua Shashin Sōsho'' (1948–49). It became a monthly magazine from July 1951. The magazine is now (2020) published (in Tokyo) by Nippon Camera-sha, which has also published an annual, ''Shashin Nenkan'' () and other photography-related books. Since the demise of ''Camera Mainichi,'' the sole rival of ''Nippon Camera'' as a photography magazine attempting to cater to all interests was ''Asahi Camera was a Japanese monthly photographic magazine, published from April 1926 until July 2020, when it was discontinued due to declining circulation. History and profile The first issue was that for April 1926.During the twentieth century, Japanese mon ...'', but this too was discontinued in summer 2020. In April 2021 the magazine announced that it will suspend its publication af ...
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Camera Mainichi
is a Japanese monthly magazine of photography that started in June 1954 and ceased publication in April 1985.Mari Shirayama, "Major Photography Magazines", pp. 378–385 of Anne Wilkes Tucker, ed., ''The History of Japanese Photography'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003; ). The Mainichi Press was the founding company. Robert Capa was instrumental in the establishment of the magazine. As in most mass-market photography magazines, much of the editorial content of ''Camera Mainichi'' was devoted to news and reviews of cameras, lenses, and other equipment. But from the start it found space for first-rate and unconventional photography, and especially during the period 1963–78 when it was edited by Shōji Yamagishi it seemed more adventurous than its major rivals ''Asahi Camera'' and ''Nippon Camera'' (which both survived it). After Yamagishi left, it devoted more space to fashion and mildly erotic photography. ''Camera Mainichi'' was based in Tokyo. The last edit ...
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Kimura Ihei Award
The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine ''Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is given to one or more new photographers whose work has been exhibited or published during the previous year and is announced in ''Asahi Camera'': its original name, soon shortened, was ''Asahi Kamera Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō'' (). The award is usually given to a single photographer. In 2000, the unprecedented awarding of three prizes, each to a female photographer, caused a stir. Its major rival for attention in the mass media is the Domon Ken Award The Domon Ken Award (土門拳賞, ''Domon-Ken-shō'') is one of Japan's photographic awards. The award was started in 1981 by the Mainichi Newspapers to mark the 110th birthday of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', its daily newspaper and main publication ..., given annually to a single photographer, us ...
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Bishin Jumonji
__NOTOC__ is a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work. Jumonji was born in Yokohama on 4 March 1947. After studying at the Tokyo College of Photography he worked as an assistant to Kishin Shinoyama and went freelance in 1971, when he was the cameraman for advertisements for Matsushita Electric and Shiseido products. The association with Matsushita would later bring awards from the Art Directors Club every year from 1975 till 1979. Jumonji has continued to do editorial and commercial work (notably for Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories); while much of this owes a lot to its art direction as well as photography, Jumonji's advertising work has been uncommonly ambitious and witty. In 1972 he joined an exhibition of portraits (in Kinokuniya Gallery at Shinjuku) of Simon Yotsuya, with nine other photographers. Jumonji had started taking his "Untitled" series of portraits of people framed to exclude their heads in 1971. In 1972, these appeare ...
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Kōichi Inakoshi
Kōichi, Koichi, Kouichi or Kohichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Kōichi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *晃一, "clear, one" *幸一, "happiness, one" *光一, "light, one" *孝一, "filial piety, one" *弘一, "vast, one" *浩一, "abundance, one" *宏一, "wide, one" *耕一, "cultivate, one" *孝市, "filial piety, market" The name can also be written in hiragana (こういち) or katakana (コウイチ). People with the name *, Japanese baseball player * Koichi Chigira (孝一, born 1959), Japanese anime director * Koichi Domoto (born 1979), Japanese performing artist * Kōichi Fukaura, Japanese shogi player * Koichi Fukuda (born 1975), Japanese musician *Koichi Iida ((飯田 鴻一, 1888–1973), Japanese businessman *, Japanese golfer * Koichi Ishii (浩一, born 1964), Japanese game designer * Koichi Kato (LDP) (born 1939), Japanese politician * Koichi Kato (DPJ) (born 1964), Japanese politician * Koichi Kawakita (bo ...
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Takamasa Inamura
was a renowned Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe .... Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. References Japanese photographers 1923 births 1989 deaths {{Japan-photographer-stub ...
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Shunji Ōkura
is a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe .... He is the grandson of painter Gyokudō Kawai.Otto Breicha (ed.), ''Neue Fotografie aus Japan''. Graz: Styria, 1977. In 1958 he became Akira Satō's assistant and since 1959 he works as a freelance photographer. References Japanese photographers 1937 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-photographer-stub ...
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Shin Yanagisawa
was a Japanese photographer. See also *Tokyo Polytechnic University *Camera Mainichi *Asahi Camera was a Japanese monthly photographic magazine, published from April 1926 until July 2020, when it was discontinued due to declining circulation. History and profile The first issue was that for April 1926.During the twentieth century, Japanese mon ... References Japanese photographers 1936 births 2008 deaths {{Japan-photographer-stub ...
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Hajime Sawatari
is a Japanese photographer. He is known for his fashion and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in photography. Sawatari won the Japan Photograph Association's ''Nendo Sho'' (Annual Award) of 1973 for his book ''Nadia'',''Photography Year 1974''. Time-Life Books, 1974, p. 183. which visually documents his romantic relationship with an Italian woman by this name. He won their 1979 award for ''Alice from the Sea''. In 1990 he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award in Photography for ''Taste of Honey''. His photographs have been exhibited by many institutions including Ginza Wacoal Hall and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. His book ''Alice'', an interpretation of Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', is controversial for its full-frontal nudity of a prepubescent girl. Books *''Nadia: Mori no Ningyokan''. Japan: Camera Mainichi / Mainichishinbun-sha, 19 ...
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Akira Satō (photographer)
was a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe. Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of ''Life'' and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya is a colloquial name for a neighborhood of Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo. The area along Hibiya Street ( National Route 1) from Yūrakuchō to Uchisaiwaichō is generally considered Hibiya district. Administratively, it is part of the Yūrakuchō dist .... He graduated in 1953 and one year later became a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion. From around 1956 he was caught up with new trends in photography, and he participated in the 1957 exhibition ''Jūnin no me'' (, Eyes of ten), subsequently joining the collective " Vivo". Satō had a series of one-man shows starting in 1961, alongside publications within the camera magazines. He specialized in black-and-white photographs of g ...
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