Kusakabe Kimbei
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Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部 金幣|) (1841 — 1934) was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.
Kusakabe Kimbei worked with Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant before opening his own workshop in Yokohama in 1881 in the Bentendori quarter, and from 1889 operating in the Honmachi quarter. He also opened a branch in the Ginza quarter of Tokyo.
Around 1885, he acquired the negatives of Felice Beato and of Stillfried, as well as those of Uchida Kuichi. Kusakabe also acquired some of Ueno Hikoma's negatives of Nagasaki.
He stopped working as a photographer in 1912-1913.
Most of his albums are mounted in accordion fashion.
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[edit] References
- Bennett, Terry. 'Early Japanese Images' (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996), 50.
- Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Kusakabe, Kimbei", cited 3 April 2006.
- Musée Nicéphore Niépce; Collection du musée Niépce. 'Thé/Laque/Photographie'", cited 3 April 2006.
- Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period: "Kusakabe, Kinbei"
- Turner, Jane, ed. 'The Dictionary of Art', vol. 18 (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996), 534.
- Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Kimbei, Kusakabe", cited 3 April 2006.
