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Uchida Kuichi
Japanese photographer (1844-1875)
In this Japanese name, the surname is Uchida.
Uchida Kuichi (内田 九一, c. 1844 – February 17, 1875) was a pioneering Japanesephotographer from Nagasaki.
He was greatly respected as a portrait photographer and was the only photographer granted a sitting to photograph the Emperor Meiji.[1]
Uchida was adopted at the age of 13, following his father's death, by the physician Matsumoto Jun (formerly Matsumoto Ryōjun) (1832–1907), who was at that time studying photography with J.
L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829–1908).[2]
Uchida studied photography under Ueno Hikoma in their native city of Nagasaki. When he was 16 years old, he purchased his first photographic equipment and by 1863, when he was 19, he was importing and selling photographic equipment.
He opened his first photographic studio in 1865 with Morita Raizō in Osaka, the first studio in that city.[3]
In 1866 Uchida moved his st
