Hihara Shōzō (sold) (日原昌造)
Hihara Shōzō (日原昌造; 1853 - 1904) was a Japanese journalist, translator, and educator of the Meiji period. Born in Chōfu Domain (長府藩, now Shimonoseki), he fought in the Boshin War, then studied English with the American missionary Samuel Robbins Brown at the Niigata English School, and continued to study English with Koizumi Shinkichi (小泉信吉) at the Osaka English School. He then taught at Keio University before serving as the Principal of the Aichi Normal School and the Shizuoka Normal School. Hihara undertook several translations for the Ministry of Education before accompanying his mentor Koizumi to London, where he lived for four years working for the Yokohama Specie Bank and publishing a regular column about the city in the Jiji Shinpō (時事新報). He later spent four years in San Francisco as manager of the bank's branch there.
AKA: 日原昌造
Global geography for the Japanese public.
萬國地誌畧諳射譯圖四 / [Translated Topographical Maps of the World, 4].
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A colorful 1878 (Meiji 11) Japanese map of North America by Yamada Shintarō and Takahara Tetsuya. It reflects the distribution of geographic knowledge from abroad in the early Meiji period, and more specifically the development of popular geographical knowledge. (more details)