Kyo Koike
{{short description|Poet, physician, and photographer (b. 1878, d. 1947)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kyo Koike
| native_name = 小池 恭
| native_name_lang = Japanese
| image = Seattle Camera Club (SCC) clenove 1925-Kjo Koike.png
| birth_date = February 11, 1878
| birth_place = Shimane Prefecture of Japan
| death_date = March 31, 1947
| death_place = Seattle
}}
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Dr. {{Nihongo|Kyo Koike|小池 恭|Koike Kyō|February 11, 1878 – March 31, 1947}} was a Japanese-American poet, physician and photographer.
Photography
Koike arrived in Seattle in 1916 at the age of 38, and established a medical clinic in the downtown area near Main Street and 5th Avenue.
Although he was a respected professional surgeon, his first love was photography. He was a participant in the first Frederick & Nelson art salon, noted for his pictorialist style, and innovative combination of an Eastern and Western aesthetic.
He was a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, and was designated a Fellow in 1928. He was also Director of the Associated Camera Clubs of America.
His solo exhibitions included the Kodak Park Camera Club, Rochester, NY, 1926, the Portage Camera Club, Akron, Ohio, 1927, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences in 1928, and The Art Institute of Seattle in 1929.
Koike was the originator of the Seattle Camera Club. Given his thriving practice in the Japanese community in Seattle, his professional income allowed him not only to concentrate on his photography but to underwrite many of the expenses of forming the club. He was the editor of the club's newsletter Notan. He left all of his photographs and extensive records of the Seattle Camera Club to fellow club member Iwao Matsushita upon his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/what-became-of-the-members-and-the-work-of-the-seattle-camera-club/|title=What became of the members and the work of the Seattle Camera Club?|accessdate=May 20, 2016|first=Michael|last=Upchurch|date=12 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305204948/http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/what-became-of-the-members-and-the-work-of-the-seattle-camera-club/|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=live}}
Poetry
Koike was also a noted poet, under the pen name {{Nihongo|Banjin|晩人}}. He was a member of the Rainier Ginsha, a Seattle Haiku poetry society formed in 1934 by poet Kyōu Kawajiri.
Internment during World War II
During Internment of Japanese Americans in World War II all of his photographic equipment was confiscated by the U.S. government, and he was taken to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho. While being detained he formed a new poetry society called Minidoka Ginsha. By 1945, the group consisted of over 158 poets. Koike became ill in the camps and died in 1947, shortly after his release.{{cite web|url=http://seattlecameraclub.com/kyo_koike.html|title=Kyo Koike|author=Seattle Camera Club|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224223103/http://seattlecameraclub.com/kyo_koike.html|archive-date=2017-02-24|url-status=dead|accessdate=March 11, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Kyo_Koike/|title=Kyo Koike|author=Densho Encyclopedia|accessdate=March 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807044144/http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Kyo_Koike/|archive-date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv10595|title=Kyo Koike papers, 1902-1941|access-date=2019-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629133504/http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv10595|archive-date=2018-06-29|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Preserving a Legacy of Light and Shadow: Iwao Matsushita, Kyo Koike, and the Seattle Camera Club|last=Bromberg|first=Nicolette|url=http://content.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/shadows/index.html|access-date=2019-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803020931/http://content.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/shadows/index.html|archive-date=2018-08-03|url-status=live}}
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Category:American artists of Japanese descent
Category:American poets of Asian descent
Category:American writers of Japanese descent
Category:Writers from Shimane Prefecture
Category:Japanese emigrants to the United States
Category:American physicians of Japanese descent