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==Photography==
in 1934, Toriyama realized that his work as an ophthalmologist gave him some spare time, and his uncle the amateur photographer [[Yasunari Toriyama]] introduced him to the [[Japan Photographic Society (1924–)|Japan Photographic Society]] (JPS), where the skills of the younger man quickly developed. By 1937 his works were appearing in group shows in [[Paris]] and [[Amsterdam]] as well as Japan.<ref>''Paris and Amsterdam'': Certain photographs reproduced within ''Photographs by Akira Toriyama'' (1997) are identified on pp. 150–51 of that book as having been exhibited in "International [sic] d'Art Photographique Paris, 1937" and "Amsterdam International
Toriyama's membership of JPS was central to his photography, and JPS retained (for example as the title of its magazine) [[Shinzō Fukuhara]]'s phrase from the 1920s, "Light with its harmony" ({{nihongo2|光と其諧調}}, ''Hikari to sono kaichō'').<ref>The description of JPS in the 1930s and Toriyama's photography is based on Ryuichi Kaneko, "Another View of 'Light with Its Harmony': Photographs by Akira Toriyama", in ''Photographs by Akira Toriyama,'' pp. 9–11.</ref> [[Ryūichi Kaneko]] points out that the work of JPS changed with the times: from a start that rejected certain painterly influences on photography but that embraced the subject-matter and composition of traditional Japanese aesthetics, it moved to include the portrayal of urban scenes and fragments. Kaneko says that, influenced by [[Rosō Fukuhara]], Toriyama went further; for example, in his photography of plants "his emphasis on the sculptural qualities of leaves, stems, and branches is fresh even today"; further, that his style is similar to that of [[Shōji Ueda]], [[Akira Nomura]], and other photographers of the generation who emerged in the late 1930s and are thought of as modernists rather than pictorialists. Kaneko concludes that "[Toriyama's] work clearly testifies to [his] Modernist will to live his own life, to express himself, to the full."
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