Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: I. Oyama
Date: ca. 1908
Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul
Type: Portraits
Description: Oyama Iwao (1842-1916) was born in Satsuma (now Kagoshima Prefecture). He studied gunnery at school and invented a gun that was called the Yasuke cannon. In 1871, after being promoted to the rank of major general, he went to France to study military methods. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, he was a commander-in-chief of Japanese armies in Korea and Manchuria.
Inscription/Marks: Inscribed in ink on recto (signature): 'I. Oyama'
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