amanaimages Inc. is a company that operates an image library and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.
Credited On
- Galneryus - VETELGYUS - Galneryus, released September 24, 2014 (
VPCC-80669). Cover Photo (Kazuhisa Akeo).
History
Translated from the ja.wikipedia article アマナイメージズ (CC BY-SA 4.0), revision 111266925.
Overview
As a “comprehensive visual-rights company”, it primarily operates amanaimages.com, a library of visual materials including photographs and videos. Since its establishment in 1984, it has provided a wide range of materials, including photographs of Japanese lifestyles, Japanese landscapes and culture, and natural science photographs, as well as videos and illustrations, to the advertising and publishing industries.
It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Amana Inc. until May 2022, but underwent capital restructuring in June 2022 and came under the umbrella of Numazawa, Iizuka, and Nagai for Kimberley Co., Ltd. (NINK). The company changed its name to Visual Bank Co., Ltd.
History
October 1984 – Sekai Bunka Photo was founded.
January 1987 – Urban Publicity Co., Ltd. (now Amana Inc.) established Photonic Co., Ltd. and began the stock photo planning and sales business.
November 1997 – Merged with Camera Tokyo Service Co., Ltd.
June 2001 – Launched amana-images.com.
October 2005 – Acquired Neovision Co., Ltd.
December 2005 – Acquired Orion Co., Ltd.
January 2006 – Acquired Seven Photo Co., Ltd.
December 2006 – Acquired DAJ Co., Ltd.
January 2007 – Reorganized the stock photo planning and sales business and established Amana Images Inc.
September 2012 – Acquired Nature Books Co., Ltd. and Nature Editorial Office Co., Ltd.
May 2022 – Numazawa, Iizuka, and Nagai for Kimberley Co., Ltd. acquired the shares of Amana Images Inc. from Amana Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.
September 2022 – Numazawa, Iizuka, and Nagai for Kimberley Co., Ltd. changed its corporate name to Visual Bank Inc.
amanaimages.com (E-Commerce Website)
An e-commerce website offering approximately 240 million stock content items, one of the largest selections in Japan, including videos, still images, illustrations, music, and manga intellectual property. The following types of stock content are available.
Rights-managed: Content whose period of use is restricted. Depending on the work, exclusive use is available to avoid conflicts with competitors.
Royalty-free: Content that may be used without restrictions on media, number of uses, region, or period, provided that the use remains within the permitted scope.
Rights Services
Rights clearance: investigates the ownership of rights relating to subjects depicted in photographs and negotiates usage permissions.
Art research: when there is a desire to use photographs by famous artists, works of art, or similar materials, investigates the ownership of rights and negotiates usage permissions.
Photography Services
The company provides photography services at clients' request, including still photography, video production, drone photography, and 360-degree photography.
AI Training Dataset Development Service “Qlean Dataset”
A service for AI developers that collects and provides images, videos, illustrations, 3D data, audio, text, and other materials as datasets.
Where the required data does not exist, it is also possible to conduct new recordings or photography and develop tailor-made data.
Qlean Market (キュリンマーケット)
An e-commerce website offering royalty-free stock content at lower prices than amanaimages.com. Subscription plans are available.
Sources
- Wikidata entity Q121822953.
- ja.wikipedia, アマナイメージズ (revision 111266925), CC BY-SA 4.0.