two vintage Japanese postcards with what I am guessing are views of a Tokyo Tea house -- dated 1912, on the back is a written commemoration of a luncheon in honor of a Professor Treat given by Baron Yoshiro Sakatani -- both cards are signed [in English] by several of the participants on the back including the Baron - he become Mayor of Tokyo in 1912 -- one card also has an elaborate purple ink stamp --
-- all unposted with no writing -- light wear -- a few bumped corners and light stains --
-- from the NDL online site: SAKATANI Yoshiro (1863-1941) Son of Roro Sakatani a Confucian scholar. He graduated from the Tokyo English School. After studying at Daigaku Yobimon
(later First Higher School), he graduated from the Department of
Political Science and Financial Technology in the Faculty of Literature
of the University of Tokyo in 1884. He joined the Ministry of Finance
the same year. He served as director of Budget Bureau and Vice-Minister
of Finance. As the Minister of Finance in the first Saionji
Cabinet between January of 1906 and January of 1908, he played an
important role in the finance of the Russo-Japanese War and the postwar
financial management. He served as the mayor of Tokyo-city from 1912 to
1915 and as a member of the House of Peers from 1917 to 1941 (as a danshaku
(baron) member of the House of Peers). He also served as the president
of Senshu University. Doctor of Jurisprudence. He was a stepson of Eiichi Shibusawa. --
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