KASHIMA Seibee (1866-1924) was known as the billionaire photographer. With a huge sake wholesaling fortune to draw on, he was able to afford such extravagances as the massive lighting required to shoot in the Kabuki theater (the Kabukiza) and making and donating a huge print of Mt. Fuji to the Imperial Household Agency. In his old age, however, his adoptive family broke off ties with him, and he died in poverty.
- Collection of
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Series title
- Documentary Photographs of Sino-Japanese War
- Title
- Taedongmun, citadel of Pyeongyang
- Original title
- 大同門ト平壌ノ城郭
- Artist Name
- KASHIMA Seibee
- Year
- 1894-1895
- Material / Technique
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- 60x93mm
- Accession number
- 10116138
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”
- https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/33539/
