 Yokoyama Matsusaburō

Yokoyama was born Yokoyama Bunroku () in Iturup (then under Japanese control) on 10 October 1838.Early in his life, Yokoyama and his family moved to Hakodate, where in 1854 he was first exposed to photography on seeing daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown, Jr. and A. F. Mozhaiskii.