was a Japanese

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and editor.

Biography

Born in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to

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, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. In 1930 he married while in Germany he married Erna Mecklenburg, a craft designer whom he would collaborate with throughout his career. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica. After selling his wife Erna's photograph of the aftermath of the Munich Stadtmuseum burning to a local newspaper, in 1931 he got a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to

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to cover the Mukden Incident. After immediate hostilities there had ended, Natori went to Japan and set up the first Nihon Kōbō. When that collapsed he set up the second, working on its magazine ''

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.'' He went to

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for the

1936 Olympics 1936 Olympics may refer to: *The 1936 Winter Olympics, which were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany *The 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in Berlin, Germany {{Short pages monitor The book reproduces 16 of Natori's photographs of the US. Captions in both Japanese and English, other text in Japanese only.

References

*. Jinbo Kyōko (神保京子). "Natori Yōnosuke." ''Nihon shashinka jiten''(日本写真家事典) / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. P.239. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Natori, Yonosuke Book editors Japanese photojournalists People from Tokyo 1910 births 1962 deaths Japanese magazine editors