Ueno Hikoma

adalah seorang pelopor fotografer Jepang, lahir di Nagasaki.
## Latar belakang, masa muda, dan persiapan

Sejumlah anggota keluarganya merupakan seorang pembuat lukisan. Lebih lanjut, ia adalah putra dari Ueno Toshinojō (juga dikenal sebagai Ueno Shunnojō) (1790–1851), seorang pedagang yang bekerja dengan klan Shimazu yang pada 1848 membawa kamera pertama di negara tersebut, sebuah kamera daguereotipe untuk daimyō Shimazu, Nariakira.

Ueno Hikoma pertama kali mempelajari klasik Tionghoa; kemudian pada 1852, tak lama setelah kematian ayahnya, ia masuk Kolese Pengobatan Nagasaki dengan pandangan untuk mempelajari kimia dalam rangka membantu keluarganya menjalankan bisnis keluarganya

## Karier

Ueno mendiri mengajar bebetapa fotografer abad kesembilanbelas yang berpengaruh, yakni Uchida Kuichi (1844–1875), Tomishige Rihei, Kameya Tokujirō, (1837–1922), Nakajima Shinzō, Nagai Nagayoshi, Noguchi Jōichi, Nakajima Seimin, Tanaka, Morita Raizō, Kikizu Maturoku, dan Ueno Yoshima.
## Catatan

## Referensi

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* Himeno, Junichi. *Encounters With Foreign Photographers: The Introduction and Spread of Photography in Kyũshũ*. In *Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century* (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2004), 18-29.
* Kyushu Sangyo University; Kyushu Sangyo University Photo Contest; Ueno Hikoma Award . Accessed 3 April 2006.
* Musée Nicéphore Niépce; Collection du musée Niépce. ''Thé/Laque/Photographie'' . Accessed 3 April 2006. 
* Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu–Meiji Period, s.v. “Ueno, Hikoma” . Accessed 3 April 2006.
* Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge, and Mikiko Hirayama, eds. *Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century* (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2004).
* Smithsonian Institution Collections Cross Search Center, Photographs by Ueno Hikoma, digitized: http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=ueno+hikoma&view=grid&start=0 
* Tucker, Anne Wilkes, and others. *The History of Japanese Photography.* New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8


## Bacaan tambahan

*  Estèbe, Claude. *Ueno Hikoma, un portraitiste à la fin du shôgunat.* Tokyo: Ebisu, n°24, 2000.
*  Fujisaki Yasuo () and Kojima Tadashi (). *Jidai o tsukame kono te no naka ni: Nihon-hatsu no puro-kameraman Ueno Hikoma* (). Tokyo: PHP, 1988. ISBN 4-569-58769-0
*  Ueno Ichirō (edited by), *Shashin no kaiso Ueno Hikoma: Shashin ni miru Bakumatsu, Meiji* (). Setagaya-ku, Tokyo: Sangyō Nōritsu Tanki Daigaku Shuppanbu (Publications of the Institute of Business Administration and Management, Sanno College), 1975.
*  *Ueno Hikoma no jinbutsuzō: Sono gyōseki to sono ato no Nagasaki* (). Nagasaki: Dejima-kotohajime-juku, 2003.
*  *Ueno Hikoma to Bakumatsu no shashinka-tachi* (, Ueno Hikoma and the photographers in the end of the Edo period). Tokyo: Iwanami-Shoten, 1997. ISBN 4-00-008341-4
*  Yahata Masao (). *Shashin-jutsushi Ueno Hikoma* (). Tokyo: Maruju-sha, 1986. ISBN 4-89616-042-8
*  Yahata Masao. *Ueno Hikoma: Bakumatsu no puro-kameraman* (. Ueno Hikoma, professional photographer of the Bakumatsu). Tokyo: Nagasaki-Shobō, 1976. (The title is sometimes given in the opposite order: *Bakumatsu no puro-kameraman Ueno Hikoma*.)
*  Yahata Masao. *Hyōden Ueno Hikoma: Nihon saisho no puro-kameraman* (, A critical biography of Ueno Hikoma, Japan's first professional photographer). Kokubunji: Musashino-Shobō, 1993.
*  Baba Akira (edited by), *Ueno Hikoma rekishi shashin shūsei* (, The collected historical photographs of Ueno Hikoma). Tokyo: Watanabe-Shuppan, 2006. ISBN 4-902119-05-6