Maruki Riyō
Appearance
Template:Japanese name Maruki Riyō (丸木 利陽, 1854–1923) was a prominent Japanese photographer during the late-Meiji period.[1]
Maruki opened his first studio in the Uchisaiwaicho district of Tokyo in 1880, and his business continued up until the early 1920s.[2]
In 1888 he was asked to help in producing a new official photograph of the Emperor as the one then in use was ten years old.[2]
References
- ^ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten).
- ^ a b Notes on Maruki Riyō studio portrait of Ito Hirobumi at Old Japan website.
- Sources
- Bennett, Terry. (2006). Photography in Japan 1853-1912. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3633-3
- Template:Ja icon Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
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