Townsend Harris

Townsend Harris

male, deceased (1878)
Gyokusen-ji Temple, matthew perry, buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Hudson Falls, Shimoda…Shizuoka Prefecture
Townsend Harris was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated...
Yoshida Shōin

Yoshida Shōin

male, deceased (1859)
matthew perry, Black Ships, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Shimoda, Japanese, teacher
Yoshida Shōin was a Japanese scholar and teacher. Born in Chōshū domain to a samurai family, at age five this child prodigy began to study tac...