About the artist
CHRONOLOGY 1933 Born, the second son of a Buddhist priest, in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. Grows up in Tokyo.1947 Adopts the name “Eikoh” as a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the new era in Japan. 1952 Enrolls at the Tokyo College of Photography. 1956 First solo exhibition, An American girl in Tokyo, at the Konishiroku … continue readingMore in Kamatachi
