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Esaki Reiji

Esaki Reiji

Japanese photographer

In this Japanese name, the surname is Esaki.

Esaki Reiji (江崎 礼二 (or 禮二), Esaki-cho, Gifu Pref, 1845; Tokyo, June 7, 1910) was a Japanese photographer.[1]

He was a student of Shimooka Renjo in 1871. After a short training period, he opened a photo studio in Tokyo the same year, and moved to Asakusa the following year to become one of Tokyo's top portrait studios during the late 19th century. He was the first Japanese photographer to use dry plate negatives which he imported in 1883 and made him a "quick photographer" specializing in family portraits.[2]

He succeeded in photographing fireworks in 1889. His photograph of a torpedo explosion in the Sumida River in 1883 became very famous. Another well-known of his photographs is "Collage of Babies: One Thousand and Seven Hundred Children That in Three Years Came to My Shop", ca. 1893. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art owns a copy.[3] Esaki Reiji also served as a politician in the Asakusa Ward Council and Tokyo City Council.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    (in 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
  2. [2]
    "ESAKI Reiji - PHOTOGUIDE.JP".
  3. [3]
    "Collage of Babies, One Thousand and Seven Hundred Children That in Three Years Came to My Shop".
  4. [4]
    "ESAKI Reiji - PHOTOGUIDE.JP".



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