Seitarō Kitayama

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 Yoshirō Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.

Biography Kitayama's early career was in painting rather than film: apprenticed to the watercolorist Tōjirō Ōshita from 1911, he simultaneously helped edit the art magazine Mizue before relocating to Tokyo, where he founded the Western Art Guild of Japan and launched its journal Contemporary Western Art (現代の洋画). Yume no jidōsha (1917) Neko to nezumi (1917) Itazura posuto (1917) Hanasaka-jiji (1917) Chokin no susume (1917) (Otogibanashi–) Bunbuku chagama (1917) Shitakire suzume (1917) Kachikachiyama (1917) Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru (1917) Urashima Tarō (1918) Momotarō Tarou no Banpei Senkoutei no Maki