Japan: Three samurai posing in full armour. Hand coloured albumen print from the studio of Kusakabe Kimbe, Yokohama, c. 1890.

Japan: Three samurai posing in full armour. Hand coloured albumen print from the studio of Kusakabe Kimbe, Yokohama, c. 1890.

Kusakabe Kimbei (??? ???) (1841 — 1934) was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name. Kusakabe Kimbei worked with Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant before opening his own workshop in Yokohama in 1881 in the Benten-dori quarter, and from 1889 operating in the Honmachi quarter. He also opened a branch in the Ginza quarter of Tokyo. Around 1885, he acquired the negatives of Felice Beato and of Stillfried, as well as those of Uchida Kuichi. Kusakabe also acquired some of Ueno Hikoma's negatives of Nagasaki.

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