Seitarō Kitayama Explained
| Seitarō Kitayama |
| Birth Date: | 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Occupation: | Animator |
was an early Japanese animation director whose work includes the first examples of commercial production of anime. Kitayama was referred to as one of the fathers of anime by Yoshirō Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.[1]
Works
- Battle of a Monkey and a Crab (1917)[2]
- Yume no jidōsha (1917)
- Neko to nezumi (1917)
- Itazura posuto (1917)
- Hanasaka-jiji (1917)
- Chokin no susume (1917)
- (Otogibanashi–) Bunbuku chagama (1917)
- Shitakire suzume (1917)
- Kachikachiyama (1917)
- Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru (1917)
- Urashima Tarō (1918)
- Momotarō
- Tarou no Banpei Senkoutei no Maki
Notes and References
- Web site: Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers . Reuters . 6 July 2013.
- Web site: Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917. Frederick S. Litten. 2014-01-02.
