Kusakabe Kimbei

Kusakabe Kimbei worked with Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant. In 1881, Kimbei opened his own workshop in Yokohama, in the Benten-dōri quarter.{{cite book |editor1-last=Tucker |editor1-first=Anne |title=The history of Japanese photography |date=2003 |publisher=Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |isbn=0300099258 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofjapanes0000unse }} From 1889, the studio operated in the Honmachi quarter.{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Terry |title=Early Japanese images |date=19 February 2013 |publisher=Charles E. Tuttle |isbn=978-1462911370 |page=50 |edition=1st}}

By 1893, his was one of the leading Japanese studios supplying art to Western customers.{{cite book |last1=Wakita |first1=Mio |title=Staging desires : Japanese femininity in Kusakabe Kimbei's nineteenth-century souvenir photography |year=2013 |publisher=Reimer |page=14 |isbn=978-3-496-01467-6}} Many of the photographs in the studio's catalogue featured depictions of Japanese women, which were popular with tourists of the time.{{r|Wakita|p=10}} Kimbei preferred to portray female subjects in a traditional bijinga style, and hired geisha to pose for the photographs.{{cite web |last1=Kincaid |first1=Chris |title=Felice Beato and Kimbei Kusakabe, Photographers of 1800s Japan |url=https://www.japanpowered.com/japan-culture/beato-kimbei-photographers-1800s-japan |website=Japan Powered |access-date=11 January 2019 |date=6 May 2018}} Many of his albums are mounted in accordion fashion.{{cite web |title=Exhibition: Visual Arts of Japan |url=https://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/visual-arts-japan |website=Georgetown University Library |access-date=11 January 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Hockley |first1=Allen |title=Globetrotters' Japan: People. Foreigners on the Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan |url=https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/gt_japan_people/ga1_essay01.pdf |website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visualizing Cultures |access-date=11 January 2019 |date=2010}}

Around 1885, Kimbei 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.

Kimbei retired as a photographer in 1914.{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Terry |title=Photography in Japan, 1853-1912 |date=2012 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1462907083}}

Image:Country Children Kusakabe Kimbei.jpg|Country children

File:Kusakabe Kimbei - 232 Kago Travelling Chair.jpg|Kago Travelling Chair

File:Kusakabe Kimbei - 395 Wringing the Tealeaves on the Furnace.jpg|Wringing the Tealeaves on the Furnace

File:Kusakabe Kimbei - Writing Letter (large).jpg|Writing Letter (also known as Letter Writer)

File:KITLV - 110644 - Kusakabe, Kimbei - Yumoto lake at Nikkō, Tochigi (日光市), Japan - circa 1890.tif|Yumoto lake at Nikkō, Tochigi (日光市), Japan

File:KITLV - 110658 - Kusakabe, Kimbei - Buddha statue at Hakone in Japan - circa 1890.tif|Buddha statue at Hakone, Japan

File:KITLV - 110662 - Kusakabe, Kimbei - Bell of Daibutsu in Kyoto in Japan - circa 1890.tif|Bell of Daibutsu in Kyoto

File:KITLV - 110673 - Kusakabe, Kimbei - Japanese woman in jinrikisha at Japan - circa 1890.tif|Japanese woman in jinrikisha

File:Fuji.jpg|View of Mount Fuji. Hand-coloured albumen silver print, 1880.

File:Kusakabe Kimbei - Q 82 Japanese Lantern Maker.jpg|Japanese Lantern Makers

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311134041/http://www.museeniepce.com/book3.php?folder_code=63 Musée Nicéphore Niépce; Collection du musée Niépce. Thé/Laque/Photographie]. Accessed 3 April 2006.
• [http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/list.php?req=1&target=Kinbei Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period: "Kusakabe, Kinbei"]. Accessed 30 May 2008.
• Turner, Jane, ed. The Dictionary of Art, vol. 18 (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996), 534.
• [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=kusakabe&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500071820 Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Kimbei, Kusakabe"]. Accessed 3 April 2006.

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• Old Photos of Japan. [http://oldphotosjapan.com/en/photos/photographer/Kimbei+Kusakabe Kusakabe Kimbei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927074719/http://oldphotosjapan.com/en/photos/photographer/Kimbei+Kusakabe |date=2010-09-27 }}. A selection of photographs by Kusakabe, with footnoted descriptive text. Accessed 28 May 2009.
• I Photo Central. [http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/result_list.php/256/Kusakabe+Kimbei Kusakabe Kimbei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216110253/http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/result_list.php/256/Kusakabe+Kimbei |date=2010-12-16 }}. A selection of photographs by Kusakabe. Accessed 30 May 2008.
• [http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?tag.cstype=all&q=kimbei&fq=data_source:%22Freer+Gallery+of+Art+and+Arthur+M.+Sackler+Gallery+Archives%22 Some of Kimbei Kusakabe's photos.] At the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
• [https://www.fostinum.org/kusakabe-kimbei.html Fostinum: Photographs by Kusakabe Kimbei]
• Photos of Japan. [https://www.photosofjapan.com/journal-japanese-prints/2018/2/19/who-created-these-wonderful-japanese-prints-kusakabe-kimbei Kusakabe Kimbei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223232314/https://www.photosofjapan.com/journal-japanese-prints/2018/2/19/who-created-these-wonderful-japanese-prints-kusakabe-kimbei |date=2018-02-23 }}. A collection of Japanese prints by Kusakabe Kimbei.
• [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?query=Kusakabe%20Kimbei&img_filter=1 Kusakabe Kimbei, photographs], Canadian Centre for Architecture

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