Seitaro Kitayama

Seitaro Kitayama
Born	1888 Tokyo
Died	February 2, 1945 Osaka
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Animator

Urashima Tarō (1918)

Seitaro Kitayama (北山 清太郎 Kitayama Seitarō, 1888 – February 2, 1945) 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 Yoshiro Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.^[1]

Works

• Battle of a Monkey and a Crab (1917)^[2]
• Yume no jidōsha (1917)^[2]
• Neko to nezumi (1917)^[2]
• Itazura posuto (1917)^[2]
• Hanasaka-jiji (1917)^[2]
• Chokin no susume (1917)^[2]
• (Otogibanashi–) Bunbuku chagama (1917)^[2]
• Shitakire suzume (1917)^[2]
• Kachikachiyama (1917)^[2]
• Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru (1917)^[2]
• Urashima Tarō (1918)^[2]
• Momotaro
• Tarou no Banpei Senkoutei no Maki

References

1. "Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers". Reuters. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
2. Frederick S. Litten. "Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-02.