The Japanese photographer SUZUKI Shinichi II (1855-1912) was an apprentice of Shimooka Renjo for seven years from 1870 and opened his first studio in Nagoya, Japan, in 1876. In 1888 he photographed the Emperor and Empress of Japan. See Terry Bennett, Photography in Japan 1853-1912 (North Clarendon: Tuttle, 2006).