DescriptionAerial view of Kagoshima city. Griffis's note in the back reads: "City of Kagoshima, capital of Satsuma. [Francis] Xavier first landed here 1543. Bombarded by the British in [1863]. 100,000...
DescriptionThe Kagoshima factory was Japan's first European-style cotton spinning mill powered by steam engines constructed in 1857 by Shimazu Nariakira (島津斉彬), the daimyo of Satsuma domain. Of the...
