A few weeks ago the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:
ジョン万次郎:吉田東洋の写真を撮影…山内家資料館発表
毎日新聞 2015年03月13日 22時56分
ガラス板を使った米国式の湿板写真で縦１０．９センチ、横８．２センチ。東洋の日記から暗殺前年の１８６１年１月２９日に江戸で撮影され、昨秋、東洋の子孫から同館に寄贈された。
東京大史料編纂（へんさん）所などの調査で、この技法を当時の江戸で使えたのは、同じ土佐人の万次郎だけと判明。歴史的一枚に、研究者は「写真の夜明けぜよ」。【岩間理紀】
(試譯文)
On the 13th (March) for the first
time the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasure and Archives in Kochi city announced
that it was John Manjiro, the first Japanese to migrate to the USA, that took
the picture Yoshida Toyo who was a Tosa feudal clan politic participant assassinated
during the late Bakufu period by the political party that advocated reverence for the
Emperor and expulsion of foreigners.
It was an American system wet plate photo, using a glass plate
measuring 10.9 centimeters in length and 8.2 centimeters in width. Based on the
diary of Toyo, the picture was taken in Edo on 29th January 1861, before the assassination. It was donated to the said Archives
by Toyo’s descendants last autumn.
According to an investigation by the University of Tokyo
Historiography Institute, in those days in Edo
the one who could use this technique was Manjiro who was some one from the same
Tosa. As a piece of history, the researchers said that it "sheds light on the
unknown of a picture".
My understanding is that in 1861
photography was a very new invention, and it would cost a lot of money to take
one photo.
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