Kameya Tokujirō (龜谷 徳次郎[1], 1825–1884) was a Japanese photographer.
[2] He learned photography at Deshima, the Dutch enclave in the harbour of Nagasaki where physicians Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort taught photography in addition to medicine and chemistry.
In turn, Kameya taught photography to Tomishige Rihei, who became his apprentice in 1862.
In 1871, she married Yoshii Teijirō (吉井禎次郎),[4] whom the family adopted and who took the name Kameya Teijirō; he also worked at the Nagasaki studio, later opening and operating a branch studio in Korea until his death in 1885.
Kameya Tokujirō may have opened his Nagasaki studio before his 1862 move to Kyoto, and if so it may predate that of Ueno Hikoma as the earliest in the city.