addition to being a pioneer of the art, Renjō also helped to establish photography in Japan by teaching it to many of his other countrymen. For example, he was the teacher of the great photographer Yokoyama Matsusaburō, starting in 1864. He also taught many other students including: Usui Shusaburo, Esaki Reiji, and Suzuki Shinichi I and II. He was honored by the government of Tokyo before his death for his influence, and was elected to join the Japan Photographic Society in 1893. Further reading Morishige Kazuo, Shimooka Renjo: Pioneer of Japanese Photography (Japanese and English Edition). Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai (February 2, 2015). . Ishiguro Keishō, ed., Genteiban: Shimooka Renjō shashinshū (Shimooka Renjō: The Pioneer Photographer in Japan) (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1999). Kinoshita Naoyuki, Shashingaron: Shashin to kaiga no kekkon (On the Photographic Image: The Marriage of Photography and Painting) (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1996). Worswick, Clark, ed., Japan: Photographs, 1845-1905 (New York: Penwick/Knopf, 1979). Yokohama Archives of History, "Yokohama shashin shōshi" (A Concise History of Yokohama Photographs), in F. Beato bakumatsu Nihon shashinshū (A Collection of Photographs from Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan by F. Beato) (Yokohama: Yokohama Kaikō Shiryōkan, 1987). Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi, Dai-ichi bu: Torai kara 1945 nen made (Japanese Photography: From In/Out, Part 1: From its Introduction to 1945), exh. Cat. In Japanese and English (Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996). Shashin torai no koro (The Advent of Photography in Japan), exh. cat. In Japanese and English (Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and Hakodate: Hakodate Museum of Art, 1997). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』 Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Rousmaniere, Nicole C., & Hirayama, Mikiko, ed., Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century. Hotei Publishing: Amsterdam. 2004. . March, Phillip, & Delank, Claudia, ed. The Adventure of Japanese Photography 1860–1890.Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2002. . References External links Tokyo Digital Museum Japan Times article - Shimooka Renjo: Back in Focus Japanese photographers 1823 births 1914 deaths