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1940, Tokyo, Edo prefecture
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Hiroh Kikai
Japanese photographer (1945–2020)
Hiroh Kikai (鬼海 弘雄, Kikai Hiroo[n 1], 18 March 1945 – 19 October 2020) was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He pursued each of these for over two decades, and each led to one or more book-length collections.
Although previously a respected name in Japanese photography,[1] Kikai was not widely known until 2004, when the first edition of his book Persona, a collection of Asakusa portraits, won both the Domon Ken Award and Annual Award of the PSJ.[2] In 2009, the ICP and Steidl copublished Asakusa Portraits for an international market.
Early years
[edit]Kikai was born in the village of Daigo (now part of Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture) on 18 March 1945 as the seventh and last child (and fifth son) of the family.[3] He had a happy childhood, from the age of 11 or so preferring to play by himself in the nature that surrounded the village.[4] He graduated from high school in 1963 and worked in Yamagata for a year, and then went to Hosei University in Tokyo to stu
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