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is a photojournalist best known for his depiction of the effects of mercury poisoning on people in and near Minamata over a period of some forty years. Kuwabara was born — as Fumiaki Kuwabara (, ''Kuwabara Fumiaki'') — in the village of Kibe (now part of Tsuwano), Shimane Prefecture, Japan.〔Birthday: ''Works by 25 Photographers in their 20s'' (catalogue of an exhibition held at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 1995), p. 89. Place of birth and original name: (CV ). Much other information below comes from one or other of these sources.〕 In 1960 he graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tokyo Photo School (later Tokyo College of Photography). In the same year Kuwabara started work as a freelance photographer. With a letter of introduction from a journalist with ''Shūkan Asahi'' magazine, he visited the director of Minamata Municipal Hospital, Dr Noboru Ōhashi, in July, to ask for permission to photograph. Ōhashi gave him permission for long-term coverage.〔Start at Minamata: ''Works by 25 Photographers'', pp. 82–3. This catalogue also presents examples of his early work in Minamata, and a potted CV.〕 Kuwabara's photographs of Minamata were shown in his first solo exhibition, ''Minamata-byō'' (Minamata disease), at the Fuji Photo Salon in Tokyo in September 1962. This won the newcomers' award of the Japan Photo Critics Association.〔JPCA award: ''25 Photographers'', p. 89.〕 Kuwabara's works have also won an award from Kodansha in 1965, the Photographic Society of Japan's Annual Award in 1971, and the Ina Nobuo Award in 1982.〔Kōdansha award: () (list of award winners). PSJ award: (日本写真協会 過去の受賞者一覧 ) (PSJ, list of past award-winners). Ina Nobuo Award: () (announcement of the 7th Ina Nobuo Award to Shinzō Hanabusa and Kuwabara).〕 Since 1997, Tsuwano has had a gallery largely devoted to Kuwabara's work. Until March 2004, this was called the Tsuwano Documentary Photograph Gallery; it was then renamed the Shisei Kuwabara Photographics Museum. ==Notes== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shisei Kuwabara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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