DescriptionIwakura Tomosada (岩倉具定; Asahi (旭)), son of Iwakura Tomomi (岩倉具視), studied under Guido Verbeck in Nagasaki, then departed for the United States in 1870, together with his brother,...
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...
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...
DescriptionPortrait of Mori Arinori (森有禮). He was the first Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C., from 1871 to 1873, during the time the Iwakura Mission was in the U.S. He later served as the first...
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...
DescriptionEgi Kazuyuki (江木千之) served as an inspector in the Ministry of Education and in 1890 a councilor before becoming Director General of the Department of General School Affairs in the Ministry of...
DescriptionThe Kaigan Church (海岸教会) was the first Japanese Protestant Church founded in Japan in March of 1872. During the new year celebrations of 1872 a group of Japanese students witnessed a meeting...
DescriptionTanaka Fujimaro (田中不二麿) was an official appointed from the Ministry of Education to the Iwakura mission. He was a mid-level samurai from the Owari Domain and held the title of mombu daijō...
DescriptionRobert M. Brown, the son of Samuel R. Brown, graduated from Rutgers in Spring of 1865 and by November traveled to Japan to take over his father's class of six students. Robert Brown became the third...
