was a Japanese

photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

. Almost nothing about Moriwaki is known. In the 1930s he was a member of the Osaka Camera Group ( ''Ōsaka Kamera Gurūpu'') of

Kiyoshi Koishi (March 26, 1908 - July 7, 1957) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club in 1928. In 1933 he published the monograph ''Sh ...

, and in the late thirties a member of Rōka Photography Club ( ''Rōka Shashin Kurabu''). The

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ...

holds works by Moriwaki in its permanent collection.As can be inferred from Moriwaki's inclusion in ''Nihon shashinka jiten.''

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*''Nihon no shashinka'' () / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . P.407. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. *''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . P.309. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moriwaki, Eiichi Japanese photographers Year of birth missing Possibly living people