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2 Houston Center, the location of the consulate. The Consulate-General of Japan in Houston (在ヒューストン日本国総領事館, Zai Hyūsuton Nippon-koku Sōryōjikan) is Japan's diplomatic facility in Houston, Texas, United States. It is located in Suite 3000 at 2 Houston Center, which is located at 900 Fannin Street in Downtown Houston.
Kanrin Maru (circa 1860) The three plenipotentiary members of the Japanese embassy: Muragaki Norimasa, Shinmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasa.. On February 9 (January 19 in the Japanese calendar), 1860, the Kanrin Maru set sail from Uraga for San Francisco under the leadership of Captain Katsu Kaishū, with Nakahama "John" Manjiro as the official translator, carrying 96 Japanese men and an ...
The Tokugawa Memorial Foundation (Japanese: 徳川記念財団) was established in late 2003. Its objective is to preserve and administer the historical objects, art, armor and documents that have been passed down in the Tokugawa family over the generations, display them for the general public and provide assistance to academic research on topics concerning historical Japan.
415 Broadway (National City Bank of New York) 425 Broadway (Le Boutillier Brothers Store) 429 Broadway (A. J. Ditenhoffer Warehouse) 459 Broadway (D. Devlin & Do. Store) 462 Broadway; Mechanics' Hall; 482 Broadway (Roosevelt Building) 486 Broadway (Mechanics & Traders Bank) E. V. Haughwout Building; New Era Building; 502 Broadway (C. G. Gunther ...
The "trade pass" (Dutch: handelspas) issued in the name of Tokugawa Ieyasu, allowing Dutch ships to travel to and dock at anywhere in Japan. VOC chief traders in Japan were the opperhoofden of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC) in Japan during the Edo period, when Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Under the Tokugawa shogunate, many cadet branches of the clan retained the Matsudaira surname, and numerous new branches were formed in the decades after Ieyasu. Some of those branches were also of daimyō status. After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, the Tokugawa and Matsudaira clans became part of the new kazoku ...
The Tokugawa's clan symbol, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock" (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock", the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger"—Asarum), has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate.
Ueno Tōshō-gū ca. 1920 A Visit to Ueno Tōshō-gū Shrine by Harada Naojirō (1863-1899). Ueno Tōshō-gū is said to have been built in 1627, by Tōdō Takatora. [4] It is known that in 1627 it was dedicated to the memory of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542–1616), [3] the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in ...