About Maruki Riyō
Lived 1854 – 1923 (aged 68–69). Maruki Riyō was a Japanese photographer.
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.
was a prominent Japanese photographer during the late-Meiji period.
Maruki opened his first studio in the Uchisaiwaicho district of Tokyo in 1880, and his business continued up until the early 1920s.
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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Who was Maruki Riyō?
Japanese photographer (1854–1923)
When was Maruki Riyō born?
Maruki Riyō was born in 1854.
When did Maruki Riyō die?
Maruki Riyō died in 1923.
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Maruki Riyō was a photographer.
What nationality was Maruki Riyō?
Maruki Riyō was Japanese.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Maruki Riyō. https://biography.guide/maruki-riyo/
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