Matsumoto Jun (physician)

Matsumoto Jun (松本順) (also known as Matsumoto Ryōjun 松本良順) (1832-1907) was a Japanese physician who studied photography with J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829 - 1908). He served as the personal physician to the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu. He was though somewhat unimpressed with his instructor's skills, once describing the result of one of Pompe van Meerdervoort's photographic experiments as, "a meagre black shadow".

When Swiss photographer Pierre Rossier arrived in Japan in 1859, Matsumoto ordered Maeda Genzō to assist Rossier. Maeda subsequently became a pioneering Japanese photographer. Another link between Matsumoto and photography dates from some point between 1857 and 1859 when he adopted the 13-year-old future photographer Uchida Kuichi.

In the Meiji era, he maintained his relations with former retainers of the shogun. He also was instrumental in helping Nagakura Shinpachi and Saitō Hajime build a monument to the Shinsengumi at Itabashi.