（行水）

(Bathing in a wooden tub) （行水）

SHIMOOKA Renjo 下岡蓮杖

It is one of left a few works of the nude photography by Renjo now. In his essay “Kurofune-danso” MORI Fusui, wrote about Renjo’s nude photography: ”This is something most people do not know about photography, but because the foreigners at that time really liked women, Renjo made a portable studio in the backyard of the ITABE home in Shimoda. There he made photographs, in the manner of the so-called shunga, which he sold to foreigners".

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: (Bathing in a wooden tub)
Original title: （行水）
Artist Name: SHIMOOKA Renjo
Year: 1863-1875
Material / Technique: Albumen print
Accession number: 10105337
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”: https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/17867/

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About the creator

下岡蓮杖 / SHIMOOKA Renjō

from Art Platform Japan: https://artplatform.go.jp/resources/collections/artists/A1468

Date of birth: 1823-03-24
Birth place: Izu Province
Date of death: 1914-03-03
Death place: Tokyo
Medium: Photography
Gender: male
Update date: 2025-09-01

Identifiers

APJ ID: A1468
VIAF ID: 21979557
NDL ID: 00736498
ULAN ID: 500673751
AOW ID: _f3a84092-5a88-43b0-81f0-3d391462cd17
Wikidata ID: Q1324419

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