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Square in Tokyo sponsored a Photo History Museum Exhibition on his work and legacy, entitled,
The Story of Seibei Kajima, the 'Millionaire Photographer' in the Meiji Period
" This exhibit presented Kajima as a trailblazer in Japanese portrait and landscape photography, who developed new techniques, for example, by devising large-format cameras to take oversized photographs, by experimenting with X-rays, and by employing the magnesium flash to take photographs at night.

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References

Japanese photographers 1866 births 1924 deaths Culture articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia {{Japan-photographer-stub