shashasha

Born in Tokyo in 1947. Photographer and writer.
While a student at Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography, he held the solo exhibition “TODAY TOKYO” at Ginza Nikon Salon in 1969, becoming the youngest person ever to hold such an exhibition (at the time). After working at Nippon Design Center, he went freelance and lived in Vienna for seven years from 1973, where he participated in “NEUE FOTOGRAFIE AUS JAPAN,” a traveling exhibition of Japanese photographers that toured Europe. As an artist dispatched by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, he studied contemporary American photography at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York). While holding solo exhibitions in Tokyo, New York, Berlin, and other cities, he also writes camera critiques, and his books such as “Reisan (Praise for Meishinki)” have ignited the Leica and classic camera boom. In his books, he has won the hearts of many camera fans with his unique Chotoku-jisatsu, and he is especially a leading narrator on Leica.
He is a member of the Fake Leica League (including Konosuke Sakazaki, Kenichi Nagira, Hideki Togi, and Kazuya Fukuda).