Shimazu Nariakira was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain.
Shimazu Nariakira
The Shūseikan (集成館) industrial area established by Shimazu Nariakira in 1852 in Iso (磯), Satsuma Province. A "foreigner's building" (異人館) was built to house seven English technicians, (head of these being one E. Home). 1872 photograph.
Marquess Kuroda Nagahiro, a close relative of Shimazu Nariakira.
Shimazu Nariakira's daughters
The Shimazu clan were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.
Grave of Shimazu family at Mount Kōya.
Samurai of the Satsuma clan, during the Boshin War period (1868–1869)