Iwamiya said he was shocked when he saw the final photo and how Kōno was able to bring such life to such dead grass.
It was headed by Yasui Nakaji; other members included Kono, Kametaro Kawasaki, Tabuchi Kaneyoshi, Yutaka Tezuka, and Osamu Shiihara.
Other members at the time included Kei Mori, Shigeru Izumi, Yoshio Hayakawa, Shisui Tanahashi, Toshiji Yoshida, Morio Gunji, Kohei Uchida, and Hisashi Toyama.
The Eight Person Tampei Exhibition included Shisui Tanahashi, Takeji Iwamiya, Katsumasa Kimura, Gyokai Sahoyama, Hatsutaro Horiuchi, Ikko Wada, and Mizuo Tamai.
In the same year, he creates a new organization called the Spiegel Photography Association with Shisui Tanahashi and Katsumasa Kimura.