Maruki Riyō

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Maruki".

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

^ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten^?).
^ ^a ^b Notes on Maruki Riyō studio portrait of Ito Hirobumi at Old Japan website.

Bennett, Terry. (2006). Photography in Japan 1853-1912. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. 10-ISBN 0-804-83633-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-804-83633-3
(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