Maruki Riyō

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.

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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.