Seitaro Kitayama

Kitayama Seitarō (Japanese: Kitayama Seitaro/Kitayama Seitaro, Romanized: Kitayama Seitarō, March 3, 1888 - February 13, 1945) was a Japanese animator, watercolor painter, and magazine editor. Kitayama once served as the legal representative of the Osaka branch of the Japan Watercolor Society and the legal representative of Kitayama Film Studio. Together with Shimokawa Aten and Yukiuchi Jun, he is known as "Japan's earliest animator".