KUSAKABE KIMBEI
Kusakabe Kimbei, one of the most accomplished Japanese photographers of his time, operated a studio in Yokohama from the early 1880s until 1913.

He learned photography as an apprentice to Baron von Stillfried, an Austrian who worked in Japan from 1872 to 1883. After von Stillfried left Japan, Kimbei acquired many of the glass plate negatives of his teacher along with some of the plates of well- known photographer Felice Beato. Kimbei reprinted the work of Beato and von Stillfried along with his own work and included them in his albums.

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