DescriptionGuido Verbeck's passport specially authorized by Emperor Meiji of Japan, granting Verbeck full rights and protection under the Japanese government.
DescriptionPortrait of Katsu Awa (Kaishū) (勝安房 (海舟)), best known for having negotiated a relatively peaceful transfer of power from shogun to the emperor in the Meiji Restoration. His son Koroku...
DescriptionPortrait of Tomita Tetsunosuke (富田鐡之助) (seated) and Takaki Saburō (高木三郎) (standing). Tomita and Takaki were Katsu Kaishū (勝海舟)'s mentees and were selected by Katsu to...
DescriptionStone marker indicating Yokoi Shōnan (横井小楠)'s place of assassination, originally built in 1916. Note in Griffis's hand says: "No. 2 [this photograph] Photo of a stone post established to...
DescriptionGrave of Yokoi Shōnan (横井小楠) in Nanzenji (南禅寺), Kyoto. Note in Griffis's hand says: "No. 1 (larger picture) [this photograph]. The graveyard in Nanzenji (a Buddhist temple) Nan=South,...
DescriptionScene of Yokoi Shōnan (横井小楠)'s assassination in 1869. Shōnan, an influential philosopher who advocated for opening of Japan to the West, was assassinated in Kyoto, Japan, by a radical...
DescriptionWilliam E. Griffis photographed with his students whom he took with him from Fukui when he moved to Tokyo in 1872. Griffis's note on the back reads: "My Fukuwi boys who live with me," and identifies...
DescriptionRemains of the Fukui Castle (福井城). Griffis's note on the back reads: "Ramparts and towers gone. Moat and walls of the great castle area within which lived the samurai or knights." The castle was...
