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__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer best known for his photographs of nudes and of flowers. Kijima was born in Calexico,〔"Kijima Takashi nenpu" within ''Takashi Kijima ten'' says (p.158) カレクシコ (''karekushiko''). Ikui writes "Calixico" (p.7), and various Japanese-language sources give カリクシコ (''karikushiko''), which is compatible with this; however, no place called Calixico is known.〕 California on 24 December 1920, the son of a Mr Watanabe,〔渡邊近蔵, according to ''nenpu'', which does not give the reading of his name.〕 a shoe manufacturer who had immigrated in 1905, and his wife Sei (せい). The boy's name as a US citizen was Ryu Watanabe.〔''Nenpu'' says アメリカ国籍名・渡邊隆(リュウ ワタナベ); the romanized version has been inferred.〕 In 1924, the Immigration Act and anti-Japanese sentiment brought the family back to Japan, where it separated: the boy's elder brother followed his father to Osaka while Takashi lived with his mother's family in Ōshinotsu (now part of Yonago), Tottori. In 1935 his father gave him a Zeiss Semi Ikonta camera, starting his interest in photography. Despite retaining US nationality at a time of anti-US sentiment, he majored in film at Nihon University, graduating in 1943. Although his elder brother was teaching Japanese to the US Navy and his father was incarcerated in a relocation camp in California (where he would become ill and die),〔Father and brother: Ikui, 7.〕 Kijima joined the naval air corps, in a kamikaze unit. At the end of the war, carrying the Rolleicord of one of his wartime comrades, Kijima returned to Yonago and studied photography under Shōji Ueda. Kijima became a proponent of the realist views of Ken Domon, as expressed in ''Camera'' magazine. A portrait of an old woman won effusive praise from Domon on its submission to a contest held by ''Camera.'' Kijima moved to Tokyo in 1953, working for Light Publicity. He won prizes for his advertising work before and after becoming a freelance in 1956. His 1960 advertisements for Yawata Iron & Steel in ''Life'' won an advertising award from ''Life.''〔''Nihon shashinka jiten''; this does not provide the English name of the award.〕 He has been called "the most vigorous creator in the world of commercial photography in Japan" during the 1950s and early 1960s.〔Ikui, 6.〕 Since 1945, Kijima had also been following his own, noncommercial interest in photographing nudes in black and white outdoors. His photographing of nude women directly in front of Sakurada gate of the imperial palace in central Tokyo very early one morning in 1958 caused a great moral panic. His 1958 exhibition, titled "Ra" (), of nude photographs was the second held in Japan (the first was by Kira Sugiyama); more than thirty thousand people came to see it.〔''Nihon shashinka jiten.''〕 At some time in the late 1950s Kijima and Shōzō Kitadai did the photography for an untitled set, designed by Kitadai, of four miniature books (''mamebon'') of photographs, distributed by Graphic Shūdan (, ''Gurafikku Shūdan''); its effective use of juxtapositions and miniature format has elevated it to fame among the Japanese photobooks of the time.〔Ryūichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, ''Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s'' (New York: Aperture, 2009; ISBN 978-1-59711-094-5), pp. 46–49.〕 Kijima gradually turned toward photographing traditional Japanese arts and nature and particularly flowers, with entire books about cherry blossoms and orchids. He specialized in kimono and until very late in his life was photographing models for the magazine ''Kimono Salon.''〔In the series “Danryū kimono michi: Teshigoto o tazunete” (), e.g. ''Kimono Salon'' summer 2007, pp. 136–39.〕 Ikui has described Kijima's works as influenced by both Domon and the very different Ueda, but finding a third, commercial way. Kijima died on 20 February 2011.〔, ''Mainichi Shinbun,'' 20 February 2011. Accessed 13 March 2011.〕 ==Books of Kijima's works== *With Shōzō Kitadai. Untitled set of four miniature books (each titled by number alone). (): Graphic Shūdan, late 1950s. *''Kyō no Kankoku: 38dosen no kochira-gawa'' (). 1970. *''Ran'' (). Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1975. *''The Orchid.'' London: Octopus, 1978. ISBN 0-7064-0808-X. *''Zauber der Orchideen.'' 1980. *''Yoshitsune Senbonzakura'' () / ''Keys to the Japanese Mind: Yoshitsune senbonzakura.'' 4 vols. Tokyo: NHK, 1981. ISBN 4-14-009070-7. * *1. ''Ukiyoe'' (). * *2. ''Kabuki: jō'' (). * *3. ''Kabuki: ge'' (). * *4. ''Bunraku'' (). *''L'Orchidea.'' 1983. *(With Ichikawa Kumiko) ''Ran'' (). Bunka Shuppankyoku, 1987. *''Ran'' (). Graphic-sha, 1988. *(With Ichikawa Kumiko) ''Ribon to ran'' (). 1989. *''Ran-Hyakkafu'' (蘭=百花譜) / ''The Original Orchids.'' Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 1987. ISBN 4-09-699331-X. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 1990. ISBN 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Takashi Kijima」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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