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==Biography and medical career==
==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
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
As his medical career progressed, Toriyama's photography continued but went largely unremarked. Following his death, Tomio Yoshikawa ({{nihongo2|吉川富夫}}, ''Yoshikawa Tomio'') of Showa University visited his house and learned that he had left an enormous number of photographs. Yoshikawa soon had a collection of these published.<ref>Yoshinao Fukado, foreword to ''Photographs by
==Books==
*''Kyōmaku shikkan'' ({{nihongo2|鞏膜疾患}}, Scleral diseases). Nihon Ganka Zensho 18. Tokyo: Nihon Isho Shuppan, 1953. {{ja icon}}
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*''Nihon no shashinka'' ({{nihongo2|日本の写真家}}) / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. ISBN 4-8169-1948-1. P. 291. {{ja icon}} Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
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