was a renowned

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...

. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.

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1920 births 2003 deaths Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon 20th-century Japanese photographers {{Japan-photographer-stub