This is the second created exhibition focusing on “Old Photos” which tell the history of the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Period among a large collection of photo materials of the HagiMuseum.They are to be exhibited for the first time!
　 In the middle of the 19th century, not a few Japanese people went abroad to import advanced civilization and high technology from European countries.
　 In particular, the five young persons the Hagi (Choshu) domain sent to Britain in 1863, 150 years ago made a great contribution to modernization of Japan and they are now praised as the Choshu Five.
　 Foreign travelers the Tokugawa Shogunate, some domains and the Meiji government sent as a diplomatic mission and for study to contribute to modernization of Japan are too numerous to enumerate.We wonder how they appeared, what people they met, and what spectacles they saw.
　 In this exhibition, we’d like to adopt the next three persons ; Kozo Watanabe (the first director of the Nagasaki Shipbuilding Bureau) who studied in Britain, Masatsugu Yamane (the chief of the police medical officers, the first president of Nippon Medical College) who studied in Germany, and Sansuke Hayashi (the first rank police superintendent) who inspected European countries, and introduce their experiences in foreign countries, through their albums in their libraries as the central exhibits.