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...
DescriptionImperial University, known at the time as Kaisei Gakkō (開成学校) (renamed The University of Tokyo in 1877), was established in 1873 as the first institution of higher learning under the...
DescriptionSamuel R. Brown was one of the first three Reformed Church missionaries sent to Japan in 1859. first taught at the Yokohama Academy (Eigakusho, 英学所), a language school for customs officials and...
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...
DescriptionThe Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was established in 1859 as a burial ground for foreigners who died in Japan. It is located in Yamate (山手; also known as "The Bluff"), overlooking the ocean....
DescriptionIn 1872, Martin N. Wyckoff, a Rutgers College alumnus, departed to Fukui, Japan to replace William E. Griffis as a teacher at the Fukui junior high school. After the expiration of his Fukui contract...
