Hideo Haga — Wikipedia
Citation
“Hideo Haga.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Haga (accessed 2026-05-23).
Tier justification
Tier 3 pointer: Wikipedia is accepted in this repository only as a pointer to cited primary/secondary sources, not as an independent authority. This entry is used for day-month-level date tokens and cross-reference. Fetched 2026-05-23 via WebFetch (HTTP 200, two fetches for fuller coverage).
Key verbatim extracts (fetched 2026-05-23)
Lead (verbatim): “Hideo Haga (芳賀 日出男 Haga Hideo, 10 September 1921 – 12 November 2022) was a Japanese photographer, known for his photography of traditional Japanese festivals and folk culture.”
Birth/Death (infobox verbatim): Born: 10 September 1921 in Dalian, Manchuria Died: 12 November 2022 (age 101) Kanji: 芳賀 日出男 (family name first: Haga Hideo)
Education: Keio University, Literature, 1944. “During his university years, he attended lectures by folklorist Shinobu Orikuchi, which significantly influenced his career direction.”
The Family of Man (verbatim): His 1952 photograph “Pregnant Japanese Woman Hurrying on Her Way” was “selected, for its (then) unusual public perspective on pregnancy, by Edward Steichen for MoMA’s The Family of Man exhibition which was seen by nine million people as it toured thirty-seven countries.”
Career timeline:
- 1941: Enrolled at Keio University
- 1944: Graduated with literature degree
- WWII: “Recruited to create aerial photographs for the Imperial Japanese Navy”
- 1946: Employed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone; later left to pursue photography
- 1950: Co-founded Japan Professional Photographers Society; served as chairman (1981–1988)
- 1985: Established Haga Library Co., managing “over 300 thousand stock photos”
- Expo ‘70: Producer for Festival Plaza in Osaka
Awards (verbatim):
- 1988: Silver Merit Medal, Vienna
- 1989: Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (Japan)
- 1995: Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class, Gold Rays with Rosette
- 1997: Lifetime Achievement Award, Photographic Society of Japan; Iida City Fujimoto Shihachi Photo Award
- 2000: Grand Prize, Pola Foundation of Japanese Culture
- 2008: Travel Culture Study Award
Publications (verbatim): Over 35 books published, including:
- Ta no kami: Nihon no inasaka girei (1959) — first book, Heibonsha
- Kamisama-tachi no kisetsu (1964)
- Japanese folk festivals illustrated by Hideo Haga (1970)
- Folk Customs of Japan — Festivals & Performing Arts (Creo, 1997)
- Origichi Shinobu to kodai wo tabiyuku (Keio University Press, 2009)
- Traditional daily lives along the Japanese Archipelago series (7 volumes)
Notes
- Access barriers attempted this round: ICP constituent archive at https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/hideo-haga returned HTTP 404; no other Tier-1 institutional source (MoMA, George Eastman Museum, Britannica) holds an open Hideo Haga biographical page. The Master Checklist entry (
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, Tier 1) is the primary anchor for FoM plate attribution. - Name romanization: Wikipedia uses “Hideo Haga” (given name first) in its English-language article title; the Japanese reading order is “Haga Hideo” (family name first), as shown in the kanji rendering 芳賀 日出男. Both forms are attested.
- Birthplace: Dalian, Manchuria (now Dalian, Liaoning Province, China) — Wikipedia infobox verbatim. This reflects the historical context of Japanese colonial presence in Manchuria; Haga’s nationality was Japanese.
- The FoM photograph title “Pregnant Japanese Woman Hurrying on Her Way” is given in Wikipedia (fetched 2026-05-23); the MoMA Master Checklist (
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist) records the plate (photo-0035, Checklist #38) as “Untitled” with no title. The Wikipedia-supplied title may derive from a caption or exhibition document not in this repo; it is recorded here as pointer-status only.