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Kimura, Ihei
(b Tokyo, 12 Dec 1901; d Tokyo, 31 May 1974). Japanese photographer. After graduating from Kyoka Commercial College, he moved to Taiwan to train as a photographer (1920). On his return to Japan in 1924 he established a photographic studio in the Nippori district of Tokyo. In 1930 he worked in the advertising department of the Kao Soap Company, producing advertisements with a strong feeling of daily life, using shots taken with a Leica camera. In 1932, with Iwata Nakayama and Yasuzo Nojima, he founded the photography magazine Koga in which he published vivid photographic sketches of the daily life of the traditional commercial districts (shitamachi) of Tokyo, for example Hat Maker (1932; see 1979 exh. cat., no. 64). In 1933 he formed the Nihon kobo (‘Japan studio’) with Yonosuke Natori (1910–62) and others, in the same year exhibiting with great success his series Bungeika shozo shashinten (‘Portraits of literary figures’), in which he caught the fleeting expressions of writers and literary critics.
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