Suzuki Shin'ichi (鈴木 真一 Suzuki Shin'ichi?, years of birth and death unknown) was the younger of two Japanese photographers to bear that name. Suzuki's original name was Okamoto.[1] Like Suzuki Shin'ichi I before him, he learned photography at the Yokohama photographic studio of Shimooka Renjō. He worked in a photographic studio in Nagoya, then under Yokoyama Matsusaburō, and after that went to San Francisco, where he studied negative retouching and other skills. Okamoto married Suzuki's daughter Nobu (のぶ), and (by the custom known as muko-iri [婿入り]) moved into the Suzuki family. (The older photographer thereupon changed his own name.[2]) Suzuki Shin'ichi II set up a photographic studio on Kudanzaka (Tokyo); his photographs were renowned for their beauty and were very popular. After the Russo-Japanese War, Suzuki made an unfortunate investment in the transport industry, and the family was ruined.
Notes
- ^ Perhaps Okamoto Keizō; the characters are 岡本圭三 but no dictionary yet seen specifies the reading.
- ^ To 鈴木真, but no reference yet seen specifies the reading of 真. Probably it was simply Shin; conceivably it was Makoto or something else.
References
- Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi 1: Torai kara 1945 made (日本の写真 内なるかたち・外なるかたち 1 渡来から1945まで) / Japanese Photography: Form In/Out 1: From Its Introduction to 1945. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. Text and captions in Japanese and English. A group portrait of students of a women's college of education appears as plate 55.
- (Japanese) Nihon no shashinka (日本の写真家) / Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. ISBN 4-8169-1948-1. P.224. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
- (Japanese) Kaneko Ryūichi. "Suzuki Shin'ichi". Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. P.186. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. The article is primarily about Suzuki Shin'ichi I.
External link
- (Japanese) 1875 in photography. Contains specific biographical information on Okamoto that does not appear elsewhere (and has not been incorporated within this article). However, no source for this is specified.
