Maruki Riyō

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

  1. ^ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten).
  2. ^ 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
  • (in Japanese) 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