Japanese photographer
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.
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]
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International National Artists