Jun Fujita (1888-1963) was one of the earliest Japanese-Americans to achieve prominence in the Midwest. A noted photographer and poet in the first half of the 20th century, Fujita worked with the Chicago Evening Post before he turned to commercial and artistic photography. Fujita was inspired by the natural world, and his poetry, paintings and photography are dominated by images of flowers, forests and landscapes. In 1923 he published Tanka: Poems in Exile, a collection of tanka, a minimalist Japanese form.