Ukai Gyokusen

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Ukai Gyokusen ( Japanese 鵜 飼 玉川 ; * 1807 in Ishioka , Ibaraki Prefecture ; † 1887 in Tokyo ) was the first Japanese professional photographer.

His stage name is Gyokusen ("river of jewels"), his real family name Endō ( 遠藤 ) and his nickname Ikunosuke ( 幾 之 助 ) and Sanji ( 三 二 or 三次 ).

Ukai Gyokusen came from a wealthy samurai family, but worked as a sake trader until 1831 , and after that probably only as an artist.

He was advised by the American Orrin Freeman , who ran an ambrotype studio in Edo (Tokyo) and gave lessons in it. He also obtained his photo equipment from him. From 1860 or 1861 he ran a photo studio in Edo called Eishin-dō ( 影 真 堂 ) until 1867 . He portrayed more than 200 nobles.

In 1879, the Japanese government commissioned him to record monuments in western Japan. In 1883 he buried several hundred glass negatives next to his later grave in the Yanaka cemetery in Tokyo.

literature

  • Terry Bennett, Ukai Gyokusen (1807 - 1887) , in: John Hannavy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography , Vol. 2, New York et al .: Routledge 2005, pp. 1415 f. ISBN 978-0415972352

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 館 報 「開 港 の ひ ろ ば」 . 横 浜 開 港 資料 館 / Yokohama Archives of History, accessed February 12, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Digital edition of the Nihon Jinmei Daijiten . Kodansha, 2009, online at kotobank.jp
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ukai is the family name, Gyokusen the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ukai, Gyokusen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鵜 飼 玉川 (Japanese, pseudonym); Endō, Ukai (maiden name); 遠藤 (Japanese, real maiden name); Ikunosuke (nickname); 幾 之 助 (Japanese, nickname); 三 二 (Japanese, nickname); 三次 (Japanese, nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Ishioka , Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 1887
Place of death Tokyo , Japan