# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroh-kikai
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:10.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroh-kikai"
name: "Hiroh Kikai"
slug: "hiroh-kikai"
description: "Hiroh Kikai  was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He pursued each of these for over two decades, and each led to one or more book-length collections."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1945-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroh_Kikai%2C_2011_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1945-03-18"
deathDate: "2020-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.07
  momentum:             2.390745501285347
  historical:           7.884018666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Hiroh_Kikai"
    handle:    "Hiroh_Kikai"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://hiroh-kikai.jimdofree.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%BC%E6%B5%B7%E5%BC%98%E9%9B%84"
    title: "鬼海弘雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "هيروه كيكاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "هيروه كيكاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroh_Kikai"
    title: "Hiroh Kikai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroh_Kikai"
    title: "Hiroh Kikai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroh_Kikai"
    title: "Hiroh Kikai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroh_Kikai"
    title: "Hiroh Kikai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%BC%E6%B5%B7%E5%BC%98%E9%9B%84"
    title: "鬼海弘雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroh_Kikai"
    title: "Hiroh Kikai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump