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Person
Authorized form of name
Kajima Seibei (鹿島 清兵衛)
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Description area
Dates of existence
1866 - 1924
History
Kajima Seibei came from a wealthy business family. Kajima travelled around Japan in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and produced many photographic works that he distributed through various studios. As one of the founding members of the Photographic Society of Japan, he helped finance Ogawa Kazumasa, another important photographer from this period. In 1895, he opened a photo studio in Tokyo.