Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Baron Ijuin Goro NPG x197235

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Russell & Sons, published by Ogden's

Japanese- born Ijuin Goro served as a cadet in the Taiwan Expedition, the Ganghwa Island Incident off Korea and the Satsuma Rebellion. Following this, in 1877 he was sent to study in England. He attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. After his promotion from sub-lieutenant to lieutenant he returned back to Japan in 1886 to join the Imperial Japanese Navy Genereal Staff. Working as a staff officer during the First Sino-Japanese War he became a close confidant of Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, the navy Chief. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.