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The best early detailed description of the Nippon Club, its structure and membership appeared in January 1908 when the Club was located at 44 West 85th Street in New York City's Upper West Side. In the book "Japan in New York" [4] we are given: Large photos of the front of the Club, the Drawing Room and the Japan Room. The basic listing for the ...
A Japanese/Cyrillic 1789 map of Japan showing provincial borders and the castle towns of han and major shogunate castles/cities Map of Japan, 1855, with provinces. Map of Japan, 1871, with provinces. The list of han or domains in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) changed from time to time during the Edo period.
The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road , the 26.17-acre (10.59 ha) yard sits between West 30th Street ...
I lived in NYC for three years and visited many of the spots featured in "Home Alone 2." Scenes from the 1992 movie look similar to NYC today. Some places, though, closed or never existed. Here's ...
The New York Times questioned if New York City needed another "gated community," which alludes to the premium nature of the development, shops and condominium offerings. [270] Bridget Read wrote for Curbed in 2022 that "the broad public benefit from the largest real-estate development in American history has not yet materialized". [ 271 ]
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 seated wooden statue of Tokugawa enshrined there has been designated an Important Cultural Property by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. [ 1 ] Located inside Shiba Park , just beside the Buddhist temple Zōjō-ji , an important Jōdo-shū temple and popular attraction, and close to Tokyo Tower , Shiba Tōshō-gū can be included in the ...
Time magazine stated that 28 Liberty Street had "the Rockefeller touch" [157] while The New York Times referred to the tower as "New York’s newest landmark". [92] Architectural Forum described the project as "a milestone, perhaps even an end point in the development of the American skyscraper", [ 158 ] saying that "the big, broad-shouldered ...