Meiji Documentary | Photography Movement | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
Meiji Documentary is an important thread within the history of photography. Photography documenting people, customs, society, and modernization in Meiji-period Japan. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Yokoyama Matsusaburo was born in 1838 on Etorofu Island in the Kuril archipelago (present-day Russian territory), into a merchant family.
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