DescriptionKozo Soogiwoora was born Hatakeyama Yoshinari in Kagoshima, Japan. He left Japan under an assumed name and entered Rutgers College in 1867, graduating in 1871. Upon his return to Japan in 1873, he became an officer in the Japanese Government Departments of the Interior, Education and Foreign Affairs, and later became director of Imperial University at Tokyo. This photograph shows him in traditional Japanese dress.

Genrephotographs

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3JW8FBX

CollectionPhotographs from the William Elliot Griffis Collection

Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries

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