Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back (47 page)

From left to right: Sutematsu, Shige, and their friend Martha Sharpe at Vassar.
(Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)

Vassar’s Class of 1882. Sutematsu sits fifth from the left, four rows back.
(Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)

Sutematsu’s graduation portrait, 1882.
(Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)

Ume in Tokyo, 1883.
(Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)

Iwao Oyama, minister of war.
(Courtesy National Diet Library, Tokyo.)

The Emperor Meiji in court dress, 1872, and in Western-style military uniform, 1873.
(Photos by Kyuichi Uchida. [Top] Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. [Bottom] Courtesy Getty Images, Hulton Archive.)

Hirobumi Ito, Japan’s first prime minister.
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Alice Bacon.
(Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)

The Rokumeikan.
(Courtesy National Diet Library, Tokyo.)

Sutematsu, circa 1888.
(Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)

Ume upon matriculation at Bryn Mawr, 1889.
(Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)

The Empress Haruko, circa 1888–90.
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The Women’s Home School of English in its new home, 1901.
(Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)