Maruki Riyō Explained

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

Sources

• Bennett, Terry. (2006). Photography in Japan 1853-1912. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.

External links

• Maruki Riyō studio portrait of Kaneko Kentarō (ca. 1904)

Notes and References

1. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: .
2. http://www.old-japan.co.uk/photosearch.asp?MainGrpID=0&SubGrpID=0&Sold=0&PhotographerID=183&MediumID=0&SearchText=&Thumbnails=false&OrderBy=DateAdded+DESC&FormsButton2=Search Notes on Maruki Riyō studio portrait of Ito Hirobumi