Japanese girls sent to the United States as part of the Iwakura Mission; she was the first Japanese graduate of Vassar University, and later became the wife of Imperial Japanese Army general Ōyama Iwao. Honours From the Japanese Wikipedia article Titles Baron (1 December 1915) Decorations Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (25 June 1920; Second Class: 27 June 1912; Third Class: 27 December 1899; Fourth Class: 25 December 1896; Fifth Class: 21 June 1895; Sixth Class: 27 June 1891) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (21 April 1928; Second Class: 1 April 1916; Third Class: 1 April 1906) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (26 June 1931, posthumous) References and further reading Marshall, Byron K. The Tradition of Conflict in the Governance of Japan's Imperial Universities. History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1977), pp. 385–406 External links Kenjiro Yamakawa and Meisenkai History of Japan-Yale relations Samurai 1854 births 1931 deaths Meiji Restoration Presidents of the University of Tokyo Presidents of Kyoto University People of Meiji-period Japan Japanese physicists Kazoku Yale University alumni People from Aizu 20th-century Japanese historians Aizu-Matsudaira retainers Members of the House of Peers (Japan) Kyushu University