Shimooka Renjō (下岡 蓮杖, March 24, 1823 – March 3, 1914) was a Japanese photographer and was one of the first professional photographers in Japan. He opened...

Kurihara, Television personality. Michiko Matsumoto, Photographer. Shimooka Renjō, Photographer. Okichi Saito, geisha, famous for her tragic story. The...

photography. He travelled to Yokohama and studied photography under Shimooka Renjō, then returned to Hakodate and studied under the Russian consul, I. A...

in the Yokohama Police Department, while learning photography from Shimooka Renjō in Yokohama. In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait...

photographer. Although he is much less well known than his contemporaries Shimooka Renjō and Ueno Hikoma, he is important for being the first Japanese professional...

light and shade, possibly under the influence of the photography of Shimooka Renjō. Early kōsen-ga prints View of Tokyo's Shin-Ohashi bridge in Rain, 1876...

(1838–1904, 上野彦馬) opened his photo studio in Nagasaki and in the same year Shimooka Renjo (1823–1914, 下岡蓮杖) opened his own photo studio in Noge (野毛, soon later...

Yokohama, where he soon apprenticed at the Yokohama photographic studio of Shimooka Renjō in 1867. In 1872–1873 he was commissioned by J. R. Black, publisher...

photographer. He learned photography at the Yokohama photographic studio of Shimooka Renjō, where he worked for a number of years from 1870, and where he met his...

Tokyo, June 7, 1910) was a Japanese photographer. He was a student of Shimooka Renjo in 1871. After a short training period, he opened a photo studio in...