Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture of himself, and in 1873, he started handling products related to photography at Konishiya. In 1879, the 6th generation Sugiura Rokuemon was named. In the same year, "Konishi Main Store" was opened in Honmachi , Nihonbashi-ku as a wholesaler of Western medicine, photographic medicine, medical equipment, chemical equipment, and printing lithographs. Became Konishi Roku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. (predecessor of Konica Co., Ltd.). In 1902, a research institute and a manufacturing base factory "Rokuzakurasha" were built in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, to promote domestic production of photosensitive materials and photographic paper.

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