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Kojiro Matsukata, Class of 1889 Football Team. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3QN677G
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TitleKojiro Matsukata, Class of 1889 Football Team
NameMatsukata, Kojiro (depicted)
Date Created1885
SubjectFootball, Foreign study, Japanese students, Rutgers College. Class of 1889
DescriptionKojiro Matsukata son of Count Matsukata, entered Rutgers College in 1885 through the Rutgers College Grammar School. While at Rutgers College, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and a member of the freshman football team, as pictured here. He went on to study at Yale and travel the world studying the practice of shipbuilding. Upon returning to Japan, he served as chairman of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Kobe House of Representatives. He married the daughter of Viscount Kuki in December of 1897. Kojiro became president and owner of the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, one of the largest shipbuilding plants in the world. He served as secretary to his father during his term as Prime Minister of the Japanese Empire. Kojiro's wealth enabled him to become a patron and a major collector of art from around the world.
Genrephotographs
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3QN677G
CollectionPhotographs from the William Elliot Griffis Collection
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries
RightsThis work is made available for non-commercial educational, scholarly, or research purposes subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). Proper attribution must be provided. Please contact the rightholder to obtain permission for other purposes or for uses in excess of fair use. Use outside the United States is subject to the copyright law of the nation where the work is being used.