Career
Born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, on February 18, 1885, he emigrated to the United States in 1905. Foreign nearly forty years (from 1930 until 1968) he was the official staff photographer at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, a position that helped him avoid internment during World World War World War II He became an American citizen on August 5, 1957, and died on November 12, 1971.