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Alice Mabel Bacon
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Alice Mabel Bacon was an American writer, women's educator and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan.
Portrait of Alice Mabel Bacon from the Hampton University archives
Portrait of Alice Mabel Bacon from the Hampton University archives
Tsuda Umeko, Alice Mabel Bacon, Uryū Shigeko, Ōyama Sutematsu (from left to right)
Tsuda Umeko, Alice Mabel Bacon, Uryū Shigeko, Ōyama Sutematsu (from left to right)
Ōyama Sutematsu
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Princess Ōyama Sutematsu was a Japanese socialite in the Meiji era, and the first Japanese woman to receive a college degree. She was born into a traditional samurai household which supported the Toku
Alice Mabel Bacon
…residence for Japanese women being sent overseas for education by the Meiji government, as part of the Iwakura Mission. Alice received twelve-year-old Yamakawa Sutematsu as her house-guest. The two girls were of similar age, and soon formed a close bond. For ten years the two girls were like sisters and enhanced each…
Marchioness Ōyama Sutematsu in 1903
Marchioness Ōyama Sutematsu in 1903
Battered Tsuruga Castle, Aizu, Fukushima (1868).
Battered Tsuruga Castle, Aizu, Fukushima (1868).
Kiyotaka Kuroda, who arranged to send the girls to study in America
Kiyotaka Kuroda, who arranged to send the girls to study in America
Nagai Shige (age 10), Ueda Tei (14), Yoshimasu Ryo (14), Tsuda Ume (6) and Yamakawa Sutematsu (11), in Chicago, their first time wearing Western cloth
Nagai Shige (age 10), Ueda Tei (14), Yoshimasu Ryo (14), Tsuda Ume (6) and Yamakawa Sutematsu (11), in Chicago, their first time wearing Western clothes.