People from Tottori Prefecture

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Takeji Iwamiya, Sh?ji Ueda, Iconiq, Shigeru Fukudome, Takashi Kijima, Masatomi Kimura, Kotozakura Masakatsu, Shigeru Mizuki, Gosho Aoyama, Henry Hajimu Fujii, Tatsuo Hasegawa, Teik? Shiotani, Hiromichi Yahara, Toshiz? Nishio, Kenji Sawada, Ozaki H?sai, Shuhei Nakamoto, Masazumi Inada, Araiwa Kamenosuke, Miwako Okuda, Kihachi Okamoto, Mahiro Maeda, Takami Akai, Reiji Nagakawa, Kinry? Arimoto, Nobuko Otowa, Katsumi Nishikawa, Kotaro Tamura, Youko Tsukasa, Yoshihiro Kawakami, Wakana Matsumoto. Excerpt: Takeji Iwamiya Iwamiya Takeji, 1920 - 1989) was a Japanese photographer particularly known for his depiction of architecture, gardens, and Japanese crafts. Iwamiya was born on 4 January 1920 in Yonago, Tottori, the second son of parents running a shop selling traditional confectionery. An uncle of his ran a commercial photography studio, and this triggered the boy's interest in photography; but as a high school student he was keenest on baseball. After graduation from high school he worked Hankyu Department Store in Umeda (Osaka), where he entered the Mitsuwa photography club (, Mitsuya shashin kurabu), led by Bizan Ueda and Nakaji Yasui. Following success in a photographic contest arranged by Asahi Shinbun, Iwamiya was invited to join the Tampei Photography Club and went on to become an assistant of Yasui's. He joined the Nankai Hawks in 1939 but left after half a year and in 1941 was sent to Manchukuo as a photographer. Iwamiya returned to Japan before the end of the war, and after the war opened a photofinishing shop serving a US base at Sannomiya (Kobe). While recuperating from tuberculosis in 1954, he photographed a mannequin factory nearby in Osaka; these photographs won the gold medal in the second Fuji Photo Contest, and were exhibited in the Matsushima Gallery (, Matsushima gyarar?) in Ginza (Tokyo), as Iwamiya'...