People from Yamagata Prefecture

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Chapters: Hiroh Kikai, Kenta Kurihara, Ken Domon, Ryo Chonan, Yoshihiro Togashi, Chuichi Nagumo, Kanji Ishiwara, Kotonowaka Terumasa, Koso Abe, Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Takeo Doi, Shumei Okawa, Hiroaki Abe, Kiyoo Mogi, Kotoku Sato, Sato Tetsutaro, Shigematsu Sakaibara, Hisashi Inoue, Shoichi Watanabe, Takayama Chogyu, Yamashita Gentaro, Tokihiro Sato, Ishiro Honda, Masahiko Amakasu, Haruo Nakajima, Yuko Aoki, Shigeaki Ikeda, Hirata Tosuke, Kazunori Ito, Eikoh Hosoe, Juro Goto, Takashi Ishikawa, Takehiko Endo, Hiroko Suzuki, Takushiro Hattori, Tetsuro Nariyama, Mieko Yoshimura, Kumiko Ikeda, Tetsuo Kondo, Eriko Watanabe, Yosuke Kondo, Zenjiro Kaneko, Yuya Hasegawa, Hiroshi Saito, Kazushige Abe, Mokichi Saito, Yoshiharu Abe, Udo Suzuki. Excerpt: Hiroh Kikai Kikai Hiroo, born 1945) is a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for three 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. He has pursued each of these for over two decades, and each has led to two or more book-length collections. Although previously a respected name in Japanese photography, Kikai was not widely known until 2003, 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. In 2009, the ICP and Steidl copublished Asakusa Portraits for an international market. 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. He had a happy childhood, from the age of 11 or so preferring to play by himself in the nature that surrounded the village. He graduated from high school in 1963 and worked in Yamagata for a year, and then went to Hosei University in Tokyo to study philosophy. As a student he was keen on the cinema - he particularly enjoyed the films of Andrzej Wajda, who would later contribute essays to some of his books, and Satyajit Ray - and has said that he would have worked in film production if it did not require writing, a task he has never enjoyed, and money, which he lacked. Immediately after his graduation in 1968, Kikai worked for two years as a truck driver and for two in a shipyard. Meanwhile he stayed in touch with his philosophy professor from his university days, Sadayoshi Fukuda, whose interests extended to writing a regular column for the magazine Camera Mainichi; he introduced Kikai to its editor, Shoji Yamagishi, who showed him photographs by Diane Arbus that made a great impact on Kikai. Kikai started to take photographs in 1969. At that time (when somebody fresh out of university could expect to earn ¥40,000 per month), a Hasse