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...
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Island, United States - Numata, Gunma Japan - Hagi, Yamaguchi Japan Shimooka Renjō, Photographer. Harumi Kurihara, Television personality. Michiko Matsumoto...
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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...
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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...
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photography. He travelled to Yokohama and studied photography under Shimooka Renjō, then returned to Hakodate and studied under the Russian consul, I. A...
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Ueno Hikoma (1838–1904, 上野彦馬) opened his photo studio in Nagasaki and Shimooka Renjo (1823–1914, 下岡蓮杖) opened his photo studio in Noge (野毛, soon later included...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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