Early Life and Photographic Training Born in Nagasaki, Japan, around 1844, Uchida Kuichi faced the sudden cruelty of fate during his youth. When cholera claimed his father, the young boy was left an orphan at the age of thirteen. This early hardship did not lead to a life of obscurity, however, as he was taken in and adopted by the physician Matsumoto Jun. It was under the watchful eye of this adoptive father that Uchida Kuichi first…