Kizu Kōkichi (木津 幸吉, February 8, 1830 – September 27, 1895) was a Japanese photographer.
[2] Kizu was born in Echigo Province in 1830 and was a tailor by trade, based in Hakodate.
Iosif Goshkevich, the Russian consul in Japan, visited his shop and asked him to make Western cloth.
Since Goshkevich was an amateur photographer, he asked him to teach him what he knew about photography when he returned to Hakodate.
As Kizu's clothing business was failing, he decided to open his own photography studio in Hakodate in 1864.