DescriptionPortrait of James Curtis Hepburn. Hepburn was a missionary, physician, educator, and translator who was sent by the Presbyterian Church as a medical missionary to Yokohama in 1859. He is known for...
DescriptionThe American Mission Home was founded in Yokohama in August 1871 by Mary Pruyn, Julia Crosby, and Louise Pierson as a home and school for mixed-raced children of Japanese women and foreign men. It...
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...
DescriptionLuman J. Shafer attended Rutgers College from 1905 to 1909. Upon graduation he continued his studies at the New Burnswick Theology School and graduated in 1912. After graduating from the Theological...
DescriptionWilliam E. Grffis with his first science class at Kaisei Gakkō (開成学校) in 1872. Griffis's note at the top identifies one of his students as Komura Jutarō (小村寿太郎), or "Baron" and...
DescriptionEugene S. Booth is a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary alumni. Booth became an Reformed Church missionary and in 1882 succeeded Mary E. Kidder as the president of the Ferris...
DescriptionMargaret Clark Griffis, older sister of William E. Griffis, ventured to Japan in 1872 at the request of her brother. In Japan, she taught and became the princeipal of Tokyo Government Girls' School...
DescriptionFerris Seminary was founded by Mary Kidder, the first unmarried female missionary to settle in Japan, in 1870. It served as an all girls school and is Japan's first higher learning school for women....
