Portrait of the Nagasaki Shōgo
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A2009.02 07
- Creator
- Maruki Riyō, Photographer, 1854-1923
- Names
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Collection Collector
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Collection Creator
- McIntosh, Burr, 1862-1942
- Place
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Japan
- Topic
- Diplomacy
- Travel
- Creator
- Maruki Riyō, Photographer, 1854-1923
- See more items in
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia
- Biographical / Historical
- Alice Roosevelt visited Tokyo from late June 1905 as a member of the William H. Taft Mission to Asia. Nagasaki Shōgo (1850-1937) was born in Kagoshima, but studied in America and England. He returned to Japan around 1880, after which he was attached to the Imperial Court where he was often charged with the reception of foreign visitors.
- Extent
- 1 Cabinet photograph (silver gelatin print, 14 x 6 cm. in a 23 x 13 cm. frame)
- Date
- circa 1890-1905
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A2009.02, Item FSA A2009.02 07
- Type
- Archival materials
- Cabinet photographs
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs -- 1900-1910
- Scope and Contents
- A photograph received by Alice Roosevelt from Nagasaki Shōgo (1850-1937), Councilor of the Imperial Court. The portrait is signed, "Hon. Taft with sincere regards from his friend Michinori S. Nagasaki." The back of the card bears the imprint of the Maruki Studio in Tokyo.
- 長崎省吾
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585222321438-1585222321563-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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