Renjo produced many Japanese genre photographs, but he also made portraits of famous people such as the portrait of NAKAJIMA Saburosuke . Here we a portrait of Ieyasu Tokugawa made by photographing a drawing. It’s difficult to know for certain but it seems probable that the drawing from which this photograph was made was also done by Renjo. It’s possible that after carte-de-visite sized portraits became popular, there was demand for photographs of famous people in the same size and format.
- Collection of
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Title
- (Photograph of painting of Tokugawa Ieyasu)
- Original title
- （徳川家康像）
- Artist Name
- SHIMOOKA Renjo
- Year
- 1863-1875
- Material / Technique
- Albumen print
- Accession number
- 10105398
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”
- https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/4981/
