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Shunkichi Kikuchi

Shunkichi Kikuchi was a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.

Books with works by Kikuchi
Yūenchi (ゆうえんち). Tokyo: Toppan, 1954. • Kikaika butai no shuryoku sensha (機械化部隊の主力戦車). Rikugun Shashinshū. Tokyo: Green Arrow, 1994. . • Association to Establish the Japan Peace Museum, ed. Ginza to sensō (銀座と戦争) / Ginza and the War. Tokyo: Atelier for Peace, 1986. . Kikuchi is one of ten photographers who provide 340 photographs for this well-illustrated and large photographic history of Ginza from 1937 to 1947. Captions and text in both Japanese and English. • Hiroshima: Sensō to toshi (広島:戦争と都市). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1987. . • Kaku: Hangenki (核:半減期) / The Half Life of Awareness: Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Exhibition catalogue; captions and text in both Japanese and English. Nine photographs by Kikuchi of medical treatment in Hiroshima are reproduced. Text and captions in both Japanese and English. • Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka: 1945–1960 (写真家はなにを表現したか1945~1960, What were photographers expressing: 1945–1960). Tokyo: Konica Plaza, 1991. Pp. 16–17. • (with Ihei Kimura, Kiyoshi Sonobe and others) Tōkyō sen-kyūhyaku-yonjūgonen, aki (東京一九四五年・秋) / Tokyo: Fall of 1945. Tokyo: Bunka-sha, 1946. A stapled booklet of sepia photographs of life in Tokyo immediately after the end of the war. (The word aki in the title makes it clear that fall here means autumn, not defeat.) Text and captions in both Japanese and English. • Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen (東京:都市の視線) / Tokyo: A city perspective. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Includes two photographs of Tokyo taken immediately after the war. Text and captions in both Japanese and English. ==Notes==
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