Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tomishige Rihei (1837–1922) was an important 19th and early 20th century Japanese photographer. He was a pioneer of wet-plate photography in Japan and is noted for his excellent large-format, albumen landscapes. Tomishige is especially renowned in Kyushu.In 1854 Tomishige left his hometown of Yanagawa for Nagasaki, where he became a merchant. When this career proved unsuccessful, in 1862 he became an apprentice to Kameya Tokujiro, an early local photographer. Later the same year Kameya left Nagasaki to open a photographic studio in Kyoto, but Tomishige continued his photographic studies under Ueno Hikoma. The two became lifelong friends. Returning to Yanagawa, Tomishige opened his own photographic studio in 1866, but the business was not a success and in 1868-1869 he once again worked as Kameya's apprentice in Nagasaki.

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