Toyo miyatake biography definition

Tōyō Miyatake (宮武東洋,^[1]Miyatake Tōyō; 1895–1979) was a Japanese Americanphotographer, best known for his photographs documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during World War II.

Life

Miyatake was born in Kagawa, Shikoku, in Japan in 1895.^[2] In 1909 he migrated to the United States to join his father. He settled in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, California.^{[citation needed]}

With an interest in arts — most notably photography, which he studied under Harry K.

Shigeta^[3] — Miyatake began associating with the local arts community. In 1923 he bought his photo studio. Miyatake encouraged fellow photographer Edward Weston to exhibit his work and Miyatake is credited as giving Weston his first gallery showing.^[4]

At the time Miyatake met his future wife, his brother was courting her.

He began spending time with Hiro under the guise that he was using her