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TitleStreet scene (main highway), Fukui
Date Created1900
DescriptionView of a main street in Fukui, Japan in 1900. Griffis's note reads: "The average main street in an average inland city."
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TitlePortrait of Ibuka Kajinosuke
Date Created1908-04-20
DescriptionIbuka Kajinosuke (井深梶之助) was born in Aizu in the final years of Tokugawa as a son of a samurai and fought in the Battle of Aizu. After the Meiji Restoration, he was sent to Yokohama to study...
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TitleKenjutsu (fencing) practice, Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionStudents participating in Japanese fencing. Griffis's note reads: "It was in the Han school in Fukui that I first saw ju-jutsu and fencing in Japanese style."
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TitleA street in Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionA street in Fukui. Griffis's note on the back reads: "Street in Otani's [?] birth place."
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TitleCampus of Meiji Gakuin
Date Created1890-1911
DescriptionMeiji Gakuin (明治学院) has its roots in the "Hepburn School" founded by James Curtis Hepburn in 1863 and the "Brown School" founded by Samuel Robbins Browns in 1873. It was brought to fruition in...
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TitleMeiji Gakuin Memorial Hall
Date Created1916-1923
DescriptionThis neo-gothic style Memorial Hall of Meiji Gakuin (明治学院) was built in 1890.
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TitleThe Eastern Bluff, Yokohama
Date Created1871
DescriptionYamate (山手), referred to in English as "The Bluff," was the foreigner's residential area from the Bakumatsu to Taisho periods. Initially a foreign settlement for the diplomats, missionaries also...
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TitleJapanese passport issued to Guido Verbeck
Date Created1891-07-04
DescriptionGuido Verbeck's passport specially authorized by Emperor Meiji of Japan, granting Verbeck full rights and protection under the Japanese government.
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TitleDaimyo's tombs, Fukui
Date Created1900
DescriptionAncestral tombs of the Matsudaira (松平) family located in Fukui.
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TitlePortrait of William Elliot Griffis in later life
Date Created1900
DescriptionGriffis departed from Japan in 1874, and did not return until in 1926. He returned to Japan as an honored guest with his wife, Frances. At this time he was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun...