Maruki Riyō
Maruki • Illustration — Maruki Riyō was the photographer who created this ca. 1907 image of General Kuroki Tamemoto, who was the commander of the Imperial Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Note Maruki Riyō's name embossed in gold at bottom left of the original cardboard frame and see Atarashibashi Kado, Shiba, Tokio, Japan at bottom right.
Also recorded as Maruki Riyo · Maruki Riyou
Maruki Riyō
丸木利陽 · 研谷紀夫 編『皇族元勲と明治人のアルバム―写真師丸木利陽とその作品―』吉川弘文館、2015年5月1日 · Public domain
- Born
- Maruki Riyō was born in 1854.
- Died
- Maruki Riyō died in 1923.
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- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Maruki • Illustration — Maruki Riyō was the photographer who created this ca. 1907 image of General Kuroki Tamemoto, who was the commander of the Imperial Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Note Maruki Riyō's name embossed in gold at bottom left of the original cardboard frame and see Atarashibashi Kado, Shiba, Tokio, Japan at bottom right.
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A prominent Japanese photographer during the late-Meiji period. Maruki opened his first studio in the Uchisaiwaicho district of Tokyo in 1880, and his business continued up until the early 1920s. 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.
The recorded working language is Japanese. Work by Maruki Riyō is recorded in the collections of Photography Collection.
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